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Classic and Contemporary Poetry
EPIGRAM: 118. ON GUT, by BEN JONSON Poet Analysis Poet's Biography
First Line: Gut eats all day and lechers all the night
Last Line: Lust it comes out, that gluttony went in.
Subject(s): Gluttony
First Line: Gut eats all day and lechers all the night
Last Line: Lust it comes out, that gluttony went in.
Subject(s): Gluttony
Gut eats all day and lechers all the night;
So all his meat he tasteth over twice;
And, striving so to double his delight,
He makes himself a thoroughfare of vice.
Thus in his belly can he change a sin:
Lust it comes out, that gluttony went in.
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