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 Though your threshing floor grind a hundred thousand bushels of 
corn, not for that reason will your stomach hold read more 
 Though your threshing floor grind a hundred thousand bushels of 
corn, not for that reason will your stomach hold more than mine.
 [Lat., Millia frumenti tua triverit area centum.
  Non tuus hinc capiet venter plus ac meus.] 
 A loaf of bread, the Walrus said,
 Is what we chiefly need:
  Pepper and vinegar besides
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 A loaf of bread, the Walrus said,
 Is what we chiefly need:
  Pepper and vinegar besides
   Are very good indeed--
    Now if you're ready, Oysters, dear,
     We can begin to feed! 
Think of the man who first tried German sausage.
Think of the man who first tried German sausage.
 The master of art or giver of wit,
 Their belly.  
 The master of art or giver of wit,
 Their belly. 
 Gluttony kills more then the sword.
 [Gluttony kills more than the sword.]  
 Gluttony kills more then the sword.
 [Gluttony kills more than the sword.] 
 I want every peasant to have a chicken in his pot on Sundays.
 [Fr., Je veux que le dimanche read more 
 I want every peasant to have a chicken in his pot on Sundays.
 [Fr., Je veux que le dimanche chaque paysan ait sa poule au pot.] 
 They eat, they drink, and in communion sweet
 Quaff immortality and joy.  
 They eat, they drink, and in communion sweet
 Quaff immortality and joy. 
 What baron or squire
 Or knight of the shire
  Lives half so well as a holy friar.  
 What baron or squire
 Or knight of the shire
  Lives half so well as a holy friar. 
Marry, he must have a long spoon that must eat with the devil.
Marry, he must have a long spoon that must eat with the devil.