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EPIGRAM: 118. ON GUT by BEN JONSON

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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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