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Young children and chickens would ever be eating.
Young children and chickens would ever be eating.
 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? 
 Govern well thy appetite, lest Sin
 Surprise thee, and her black attendant Death.  
 Govern well thy appetite, lest Sin
 Surprise thee, and her black attendant Death. 
 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. 
 When thou sittest to eat with a ruler, consider diligently what 
is before thee:
 And put a knife read more 
 When thou sittest to eat with a ruler, consider diligently what 
is before thee:
 And put a knife to thy throat, if thou be a man given to 
appetite. 
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.
 Now good digestion wait on appetite,
 And health on both!  
 Now good digestion wait on appetite,
 And health on both! 
 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.