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— By his side rode loathsome Gluttonie, Deformed creature, on a filthy swine: His belly was vpblowen with luxurie, And eke with fatnes, swollen were his eine. And like a Crane, his necke was long and fine, With which he swallowed vp excessiue feast, For want of which, poore people oft did pine, And all the way most like a brutish swine, He spued vp his gorge, that all did him detest. Ed. Spencer.
Fat paunches haue leane pates, and daintie bits Make rich the ribs, but bankrout quite the wits. W. Shakespeare.
Your appetites O gluttons to content, The sacred breast of Thetis blew, is rent: The aire must be dispeopled for your mawes, The Phoenix sole can scarce escape your clawes. Th. Hudson. Transl.
Of little nature liues, superfluous meate But dulls the spirit, and doth the stomacke freate. Idem.
ƲƲho fareth finest, doth but feed, and ouerfeedeth oft, Who sleepeth softest doth but sleep, and sometimes ouersoft. VV. vvarner.
— Excesse doth worke accesse to sinne. Idem.
O plague, O poyson to the warlike state, Thou mak'st the noble hearts effeminate, While Rome was rul'd by Curioes and Fabrices, Who fed on rootes, and sought not for delices. And when the onely Cressons was the foode, Most delicate to Persia then they stoode In happie state, renown'd in peace and warre, And through rhe world their triumphs spread a farre. But when they after in th'Assirian hall, Had heard the lessons of Sardanopall, And when the other giuen to belly-cheare, By Galbaes, Neroes, Ʋitels gouern'd were, Who gloried more to fill a costly plate, Then kill a Pirrhus or a Mithridate.
Then both of them were seene for to be sacked By nations poore, whom they before had wracked. Th. Hudson. Transl.
O glutton throates, O greedie guts profound, The chosen meates which in the world his bound, By th' Abderois inuented, may not stanch Nor satisfie your foule deuouring panch, But must in Moluke seeke the spices fine, Canary suger, and the Candy wine. Idem.
Fatnesse by nature (not immoderate) Kils not the wit, quels not the mindes estate. But fatnes by intemperance increast, When liuing man resembseth loathsome beast: And belly cheare, with greedie gluttonie Is held the fulnesse of felicitie. This maketh men addicted to the same, Dull in conceit, grosse minded, worthy blame. Of such do Basis, Galen, Plato write: That fattest belly hath the weakest sprite. D. Lodge.
— O short, ô dangerous madnesse, That in thy rage doest trustie Clytus smother, By his deare friend: Panthea by his mother. Phrenzie, that makes the vaunter insolent, The talkefull blab, cruell and violent, The fornicator waxe adulterous, Th'adulterer to become incestuous, With thy plagues leuen, swelling all our crimes Blinde, shamelesse, senslesse, quenching oftentimes
The soule within it selfe: and oft defames The holiest men, with execrable flames. I. Siluester.
Like as the must beginning to reboyle, Makes his new vessell wood-bands to recoyle: Lifts vp his lees, and spues with fuming vent, From this tubbes ground his scumming excrement. So ruinist thou thy hoast, and foolishly From his hearts bottome driu'st all secrecy. Idem.