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The sweetest honey
Is loathsome in his own deliciousness.
The sweetest honey
Is loathsome in his own deliciousness.
Or cloy the hungry edge of appetite
By bare imagination of a feast?
Or cloy the hungry edge of appetite
By bare imagination of a feast?
My forces are not enfeebled, I find no decay in my strength; my
provisions are not cut off, I read more
My forces are not enfeebled, I find no decay in my strength; my
provisions are not cut off, I find no abhorring in mine appetite;
my counsels are not corrupted nor infatuated, I find no false
apprehensions to work upon mine understanding; and yet they see
that invisibly, and I feel that insensibly, the disease prevails.
Read o'er this
And after, this, and then to breakfast with
What appetite you have.
Read o'er this
And after, this, and then to breakfast with
What appetite you have.
Keen appetite
And quick digestion wait on you and yours.
Keen appetite
And quick digestion wait on you and yours.
Young children and chickens would ever be eating.
Young children and chickens would ever be eating.
And through the hall there walked to and fro
A jolly yeoman, marshall of the same,
Whose read more
And through the hall there walked to and fro
A jolly yeoman, marshall of the same,
Whose name was Appetite; he did bestow
Both guestes and meate, whenever in they came,
And knew them how to order without blame.
His thirst he slakes at some pure neighboring brook,
Nor seeks for sauce where Appetite stands cook.
His thirst he slakes at some pure neighboring brook,
Nor seeks for sauce where Appetite stands cook.
