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Unfit he was for any worldly thing, And eke unhable once to stirre or go, Not meet to be of counsell to a king, Whose mind in meat and drinke was drowned so, That from his friend he seldome knew his fo: Full of diseases was his carcas blew, And a dry dropsie° through his flesh did flow: Which by misdiet daily greater grew: Such one was Gluttony, the second of that crew.