Not unlike this is what follows:—

“O monachi, vestri stomachi sunt amphora Bacchi,

Vos estis, Deus est testis, teterrima pestis!”

“O monks, ye reverend drones, your guts

Of wine are but so many buts;

You are, God knows (who can abide ye?)

Of plagues the rankest, bona fide!”

[1.] Juvenal. Satire II.24.

[1a.] Horace, Odes I.xxxvii.1-4.

[1b.] Horace, Odes II.xiv.25-28.