Dost thou not view joy peeping from my eyes,
The casements open'd wide to gaze on thee?
So Rome's glad citizens to windows rise,
When they some young triumpher fain would see.
--_Gloriana_.
]

_Hunc_. Alas! my lord, I value not myself
That once I eat two fowls and half a pig;
[1]Small is that praise! but oh! a maid may want
What she can neither eat nor drink.

[Footnote 1: Almahide hath the same contempt for these appetites:

To eat and drink can no perfection be.
--_Conquest of Granada_.

The earl of Essex is of a different opinion, and seems to place the
chief happiness of a general therein:

Were but commanders half so well rewarded,
Then they might eat.--_Banks's Earl of Essex_.

But, if we may believe one who knows more than either, the devil
himself, we shall find eating to be an affair of more moment than is
generally imagined:

Gods are immortal only by their food.
--_Lucifer; in the State of Innocence_.
]