4 Metaphors for gluttony

4. 'When they are abroad, nothing so clean and nicely dressed, and when at supper with a gallant, they do but piddle, and pick the choicest bits: but to see their nastiness and poverty at home, their gluttony, and how they devour black crusts dipped in yesterday's broth, is a perfect antidote against wenching.

Gluttony and surfeiting are no proper occasions for thanksgiving.

No other reason, but that gluttony is a sin, and too many dunghills are infectious.

In diet was perhaps too nice, But gluttony was ne'er his vice: In every turn of life content, And meekly took what fortune sent; Inquire through all the parish round, A better neighbour ne'er was found; His vigilance might some displease; 'Tis true, he hated sloth like pease.

4 Metaphors for  gluttony