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Parnassi Puerperium

or, Some Well-wishes to ingenuity, in the Translation of Six Hundred, of Owen's Epigrams; Martial de Spectaculis, or of Rarities to be seen in Rome; and the most Select, in Sir Tho. More...
  
  

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54. Upon his Gluttony.

Two thousand Fishes, and seven thousand Fowl,
Once Feasted this, Epicurean Soul.
But He was granted, but eight Moneths command:
A compleat year, might have starv'd half the Land.