Has swallowed lands on lands already,
And, still unglutted, craves for more;
The Church alone, my ladies dear,
Can digest ill-gotten gear.”
Faust.
That is a general fashion—Jew,
And King, and Kaiser have it too.
Mephistopheles.
Then ring and ear-ring, and necklace, and casket,
Like a bundle of toad-stools away he bore;