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The Poet Moralizeth - He Discourseth To Those Who Gorge And Complain.

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Oh! Kitty Malone--Mrs. Merdle 'tis now--     Was there ever on earth than this, greater folly?     Still gorging, while groaning, and swearing a vow,     That yours is a case of most sad melancholy.     With table that Croesus never had but might covet,     You live but to eat and to eat 'cause you love it;     And yet while you swallow great sirloins of meat     Complain like a beggar of nothing to eat.

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