Let Vitellius be victor, since this has pleased the gods; and let the lives of his soldiers also be spared, since this pleases me.

Against Voracitie and immoderate drinking, instanced by sundry histories. Vitellius, an Emperour of Rome, was among divers other his notorious vices so luxuriously given, that at one supper he was served with two thousand fishes of divers kindes, and seven thousand flying foules; he was afterward drawne through the streets with a halter about his neck, and shamefully put to death.