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SCENE I.
PHILODAMUS, EARINUS.Philodamus.
You have my orders. Only this, Earinus,
See that propriety and elegance
Are not encroach'd upon by cloying quantity.
Earinus.
I shall.
Philodamus.
Yet, do you hear, Earinus!
Do not so check your hand, but that abundance
Smile gracefully upon my board. Forget not
That my dependents and the poor have mouths,
Alas! too seldom fill'd. And can one see
The feast, which lavish luxury has pil'd
With all that sea, and air, and earth produce,
Without the thought, how many of our species
Seem to inhabit quite another world,
And do not know our diet? So, be gone.
[Exit Earinus.
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