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.)