DIALOGUE BETWEEN GLUTTON AND ECHO.
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..
Glutton.—
If all be true which thou
dost tell,
To gluttony I bid farewell.
Echo.—Farewell.
W.A.