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Ego has a voracious appetite, the more you feed it, the hungrier it gets.
Ego has a voracious appetite, the more you feed it, the hungrier it gets.
 Who riseth from a feast
 With that keen appetite that he sits down?  
 Who riseth from a feast
 With that keen appetite that he sits down? 
 Now good digestion wait on appetite,
 And health on both!  
 Now good digestion wait on appetite,
 And health on both! 
 Keen appetite
 And quick digestion wait on you and yours.  
 Keen appetite
 And quick digestion wait on you and yours. 
My appetite comes to me while eating.
My appetite comes to me while eating.
 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. 
 "Appetite comes with eating," says Angeston, "but thirst departs 
with drinking."
 [Fr., "L'appetit vient en mangeant," disoit Angeston, read more 
 "Appetite comes with eating," says Angeston, "but thirst departs 
with drinking."
 [Fr., "L'appetit vient en mangeant," disoit Angeston, "mais la 
soif e'en va en beuvant."] 
 The sweetest honey
 Is loathsome in his own deliciousness.  
 The sweetest honey
 Is loathsome in his own deliciousness. 
 The sweetest honey
 Is loathsome in his own deliciousness
  And in the taste confounds the appetite.  
 The sweetest honey
 Is loathsome in his own deliciousness
  And in the taste confounds the appetite.