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English poem

Glotony

by (1474–1523)

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The pomped clerkes with foles delicious Erth often fedeth with corrupt glotony; And nothing with werkes vertuous The soule doth fede ryght well ententifly, But without mesure full inordinatly The body lyveth, and wyll not remember Howe erth to erth must his strength surrender.