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Things sweet to taste prove in digestion sour.
Things sweet to taste prove in digestion sour.
 He hath a fair sepulchre in the grateful stomach of the judicious 
epicure--and for such a tomb might be read more 
 He hath a fair sepulchre in the grateful stomach of the judicious 
epicure--and for such a tomb might be content to die. 
 (For many walk, of whom I have told you often, and now tell you 
even weeping, that they are read more 
 (For many walk, of whom I have told you often, and now tell you 
even weeping, that they are the enemies of the cross of Christ:
 Whose end is destruction, whose God is their belly, and whose 
glory is in their shame, who mind earthly things.) 
 Gluttony kills more than the sword, and is the kindler of all 
evils.
 [Lat., Gula plures occidit quam read more 
 Gluttony kills more than the sword, and is the kindler of all 
evils.
 [Lat., Gula plures occidit quam gladius, estque fomes omnium 
malorum.] 
 But that our feasts
 In every mess have folly, and the feeders
  Digest it with a custom, read more 
 But that our feasts
 In every mess have folly, and the feeders
  Digest it with a custom, I should blush
   To see you so attired, swoon, I think,
    To show myself a glass. 
 "Here, dearest Eve," he exclaims, "here is food." "Well," 
answered she, with the germ of a housewife stirring within read more 
 "Here, dearest Eve," he exclaims, "here is food." "Well," 
answered she, with the germ of a housewife stirring within her, 
"we have been so busy to-day that a picked-up dinner must serve." 
 I sing the sweets I know, the charms I feel,
 My morning incense. and my evening meal,
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 I sing the sweets I know, the charms I feel,
 My morning incense. and my evening meal,
  The sweets of Hasty-Pudding. 
 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! 
 Bad men live that they may eat and drink, whereas good men eat 
and drink that they may live.  
 Bad men live that they may eat and drink, whereas good men eat 
and drink that they may live.