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Parnassi Puerperium

or, Some Well-wishes to ingenuity, in the Translation of Six Hundred, of Owen's Epigrams; Martial de Spectaculis, or of Rarities to be seen in Rome; and the most Select, in Sir Tho. More...
  
  

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180. Touch and Taste.

Some are devoid of Smell; some Deaf, we finde:
And 'tis no Rarity, to see men Blinde.
But with want of Taste, Touch; the Fates ne'r strike:
By Taste I live; by Touch, beget my Like.