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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.
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.
Young children and chickens would ever be eating.
Young children and chickens would ever be eating.
The sweetest honey
Is loathsome in his own deliciousness.
The sweetest honey
Is loathsome in his own deliciousness.
My soul tasted that heavenly food, which gives new appetite while
it satiates.
[It., L'anima mia gustava di read more
My soul tasted that heavenly food, which gives new appetite while
it satiates.
[It., L'anima mia gustava di quel cibo,
Che saziando di se, di se s'asseta.]
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!
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.
"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."]