As is fairly said from of old,

All the five mixed up colours

Make the men’s eyes be dazzled;

All the five combined tones

Make the men’s ears be stuffed up;

All the five messed up flavours

Make the men’s mouths be sated. . .

Which produce in men

The loss of their proper nature.

The first is men's fondness

For the five colours

Perceived all at once

Which disorder the eyes

And take from them

Their proper clearness of vision.

The second is men's fondness

For the five notes of music

Heard all together,

Which disorder the ears

And take from them

Their proper power of hearing.

The third is their fondness

For all the five flavours

Which deaden the mouth

And pervert its sense of taste.

The fourth is their fondness

For all the five odours

Smelt all together

Which penetrate the nostrils

And produce a feeling

Of distress all over the head.

The fifth is their preferences

And dislikes

Which unsettle the mind

And cause the nature to go

Flying about.

Moreover, those preferences

And dislikes serve but

To pile up fuel in their breasts.

These five things are all

Quite injurious obstructions

To the proper course

Of a freeman's life.