The following lines, written in the year 1609, are said to have induced
Butler to pursue the same idea in his _Hudibras_;
_Dialogue_.
_Glutton_.--My belly I do deify.
_Echo_.--Fie.
_Glutton_.--Who curbs his appetite's a fool.
_Echo_.--Ah! fool!
_Glutton_.--I do not like this abstinence.
_Echo_.--Hence!
_Glutton_.--My joy's a feast, my wish is wine.
_Echo_.--Swine.
_Glutton_.--We epicures are happy truly.
_Echo_.--You lie.
_Glutton_.--May I not, Echo, eat my fill.
_Echo_.--Ill.
_Glutton_.--Will it hurt me if I drink too much?
_Echo_.--Much.
_Glutton_.--Thou mock'st me nymph, I'll not believe it.
_Echo_.--Believe it.
_Glutton_.--Dost thou condemn then what I do?
_Echo_.--I do.
_Glutton_.--Is it that which brings infirmities?
_Echo_.--It is!
_Glutton_.--Then sweetest temperance I'll love thee.
_Echo_. I love thee..
{If all be true which thou
_Glutton_. { dost tell,
{To gluttony I bid farewell.
_Echo_.--Farewell.