You would have said I had got my bellyful of adventure, and should now have sought only a quiet life.

"Passing by a village in the territory of Milan," saith St. Austin, "I saw a poor beggar that had got belike his bellyful of meat, jesting and merry; I sighed, and said to some of my friends that were then with me, what a deal of trouble, madness, pain and grief do we sustain and exaggerate unto ourselves, to get that secure happiness which this poor beggar hath prevented us of, and which we peradventure shall never have?

In due time, they will forget how warily their fathers had to walk in the Mahdi's time to secure even half a bellyful; then, as has happened elsewhere.

O, good cheer anon, sir; she shall have venison her bellyful.