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Grocott & Ward, comps. Grocott’s Familiar Quotations, 6th ed. 189-?.

Gout

Pangs arthritic, that
Infest the toe of libertine excess!
Cowper.—The Sofa, Book I. Line 105.

I suppose you had the gout in your fingers.
Lady Betty Germaine.—To Swift, on his not having written to her. (Roscoe’s Life of Swift.)