[406] Chrysostom saith the difference betwixt famine and excess is, that famine kills men sooner out of their pain, and excess doth putrify and consume them by long and painful sicknesses. In Hebr. Hom. 29.
[407] As smoke driveth away the bees from their hive, saith Basil de Junin; so gluttony expelleth all spiritual gifts, and excellent endowments of mind.
[408] Saith Basil, A ship heavy laden is unfit to sail: so a full belly to any duty.
[409] Semper saturitati juncta est lascivia. Hieron.
[410] Ventri obedientes animalium numero computantur non hominum. Senec.
[411] It is Chrysostom's saying in Hebr. Hom. 29.
[412] Jer. v. 7.
[413] Magna pars libertatis est bene moratus venter. Senec.
[414] When a friend of Socrates complained to him, What a dear place is this! Wine will cost so much, and honey so much, and purple so much: Socrates took him to the meal-hall, Lo, saith he, you may buy here half a sextare of good meal for a halfpenny (which boiled in water was his meat); God be thanked the market is very cheap. Then he took him to an oil-shop, where a measure (chœnix) was sold for two brass dodkins. Then he led him to a broker's shop, where a man might buy a suit of clothes for ten drachms. You see, quoth he, that the pennyworths are reasonable, and things good, cheap throughout the city. Plutarch. de Tranquil. Anim. pag. 153.
[415] Matt. xxv.