“When Epicurus to the world had taught
That pleasure is the chiefest good,
(And was, perhaps, i’th’ right, if rightly understood),
His life he to his doctrine brought,
And in a garden’s shade that Sovereign pleasure sought:
Whoever a true Epicure would be.
May there find cheap and virtuous luxury.
Vitellius his table which did hold
As many creatures as the ark of old—
That fiscal table to which every day