"Now for the body, as well it leuils at it: for those who distemper and misdiet them selues with vntimely and vnwonted surfeting, who make their bodies the noysome sepulchers of their soules, not considering the estate of their enfeebled body what will be accordant to it, not waighing their complexion contrary perchance farre to the dish they feede vpon, not foreseing by true knoweledge of themselues what will endamage and impaire their healths, infect the conduit pipes of their limpid spirits, what will dull and stupefie their quicker intelligence, nay, disable all the faculties both of soule and body."
— Walkington, Thomas (b. c. 1575, d. 1621)
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London
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Imprinted by John Windet for Martin Clerke
Date
1607
Metaphor
"Now for the body, as well it leuils at it: for those who distemper and misdiet them selues with vntimely and vnwonted surfeting, who make their bodies the noysome sepulchers of their soules, not considering the estate of their enfeebled body what will be accordant to it, not waighing their complexion contrary perchance farre to the dish they feede vpon, not foreseing by true knoweledge of themselues what will endamage and impaire their healths, infect the conduit pipes of their limpid spirits, what will dull and stupefie their quicker intelligence, nay, disable all the faculties both of soule and body."
Metaphor in Context
Now for the body, as well it leuils at it: for those who distemper and misdiet them selues with vntimely and vnwonted surfeting, who make their bodies the noysome sepulchers of their soules, not considering the estate of their enfeebled body what will be accordant to it, not waighing their complexion contrary perchance farre to the dish they feede vpon, not foreseing by true knoweledge of themselues what will endamage and impaire their healths, infect the conduit pipes of their limpid spirits, what will dull and stupefie their quicker intelligence, nay, disable all the faculties both of soule and body, as instance mought be giuen of many, to them that haue had but a meere glympse into the histories, and ancient records of many dish moungers who running into excesse of riot, haue like fatall Parcas cut in two the lines of their owne liues, as Philoxenus the Dythirambiok poet, (of whome Athenaeus speaks Deipnos. 8) who deuoured at Syracusa a whole Polypus of two cubits long, saue onely the head of the fish, at one meale, whome (being deadly sicke of the crudity) the Phisiciō told that he could not possibly liue aboue seuen hours, whose wouluish appetite not with standing would not stint it selfe euen in that extremety, but he vttered these wordes (the more to intimate his vultur-like & insaciate paunch).
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Walkington, Thomas, The Optick Glasse of Humors. Or The Touchstone of a Golden Temperature, or the Philosophers Stone to Make a Golden Temper Wherein the Foure Complections Sanguine, Cholericke, Phlegmaticke, Melancholicke are Succinctly Painted Forth, and their Axternall Intimates Laide Open to the Purblind Eye of Ignorance It Selfe, by which Euery One May Iudge of What Complection he is, and Answerably Learne What is Most Sutable to his Nature. Lately Pend by T.W. Master of Artes. (London: Imprinted by Iohn Windet for Martin Clerke, and are to be sold at his shop without Aldersgate, 1607)
Walkington, Thomas, The Optick Glasse of Humors. Or The Touchstone of a Golden Temperature, or the Philosophers Stone to Make a Golden Temper Wherein the Foure Complections Sanguine, Cholericke, Phlegmaticke, Melancholicke are Succinctly Painted Forth, and their Axternall Intimates Laide Open to the Purblind Eye of Ignorance It Selfe, by which Euery One May Iudge of What Complection he is, and Answerably Learne What is Most Sutable to his Nature. Lately Pend by T.W. Master of Artes. (London: Imprinted by Iohn Windet for Martin Clerke, and are to be sold at his shop without Aldersgate, 1607)
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05/16/2013
