This gayte bucca-davy, all'ys geekin' round arter a gook.

And moan the expense of many a vanished sight.

The Englishman had a reputation throughout Europe for gluttony; it was said that overeating was the English vice, just as lust was the French vice and drunkenness the German vice. Some Englishmen became very fat, and were famous for being so. Henry VIII ate enormous meals, but as a young man he was slim, perhaps because he always took a great deal of physical exercise. By the time that he was forty-five he was suffering from painful ulcers in his leg which prevented him from riding or walking without the greatest difficulty; but though he ceased to take exercise, he ate as much as ever. He then became very fat.

[B]eſide it [the tree of the knowledge of good and evil] ſtood / One ſhap'd & wing'd like one of thoſe from Heav'n / By us oft ſeen; his dewie locks diſtill'd / Ambroſia; […]