Echo: a Dialogue.
The following dialogue between Echo and a glutton was written in 1609:—
Glut. Who curbs his appetite’s a fool.
Echo. Ah, fool!
Glut. I do not like this abstinence.
Echo. Hence!
Glut. My joy’s a feast, my wish is wine.
Echo. Swine!
Glut. Will it hurt me if I eat too much?
Echo. Much!
Glut. Thou mockest me, nymph, I’ll not believe it.
Echo. Believe it!
Glut. Dost thou condemn, then, what I do?
Echo. I do.
Glut. Is it that which brings infirmities?
Echo. It is!
Glut. Then, sweetest temperance, I’ll love thee!
Echo. I love thee!
Glut. If all be true which thou dost tell, to gluttony I bid farewell.
Echo. Farewell.