610. Said sarcastically--'Yes! when the glutton has filled his paunch
sufficiently, the rest of us are sure to be satisfied!'
Compare the following. 'Certain persones ... saiyng that Demades had now
given over to bee sache an haine [niggardly wretch] as he had been in tymes
past--"Yea, marie, quoth Demosthenes, for now ye see him full paunched, as
lyons are." For Demades was covetous and gredie of money, and indeed the
lyons are more gentle when their bealyes are well filled.'--Udall, tr. of
Apothegmes of Erasmus; Anecdotes of Demosthenes. The merlin then addresses
the cuckoo directly.