7 Of which he supped so oft, that on his seat 8 His drunken corse he scarce uphold can,
corse > body
9 In shape and life more like a monster than a man.
104.23
Vnfit he was for any worldly thing,
2 And eke +vnhable+ once to stirre or go,
Not meet to be of counsell to a king,
4 Whose mind in meat and drinke was drowned so,
That from his friend he +seldome+ knew his fo:
6 Full of diseases was his carcas blew,
And a +dry dropsie+ through his flesh did flow:
8 Which by misdiet daily greater grew:
Such one was Gluttony, the second of that crew.
2 vnhable > vnable 1609 5 seldome > seeldome 1590; sildom 1609 7 dry dropsie > drydropsie 1590; dire dropsie _conj. Upton after Horace's dirus hydrops; _hydropsy sugg. Collier
1 Unfit he was for any worldly thing, 2 And eke unable once to stir or go;
eke > also once > ever, at all go > walk
3 Not meet to be of counsel to a king,
meet > fit king > [sovereign, i.e. Lucifera]