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Quodlibets, lately come over from New Britaniola, Old Newfoundland. Epigrams and other small parcels both Morall and Divine

The first foure Bookes being the Authors owne: the rest translated out of that Excellent Epigrammist, Mr Iohn Owen, and other rare Authors: With two Epistles of that excellently wittie Doctor, Francis Rablais: Translated out his French at large. All of them Composed and done at Harbor-Grace in Britaniola, anciently called Newfound-Land. By R. H. [by Robert Hayman]
  

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14. The goe-out and the Goute.

Thou grieu'd art with the goe-out, and the Goute;
For if thy wife doth chide thee out of doore:
Which of these ills is worst, some make a doubt:
I thinke the goe-out, is the greater sore.
The Goute doth ostnest but the great Toe paine:
The goe-out doth afflict both heart, and braine.