“Straight he requires, impatient in demand,

Provisions from the air, the seas, the land;

But though the land, air, seas, provisions grant,

Starves at full tables, and complains of want.

What to a people might in dole be paid,

Or victual cities for a long blockade,

Could not one wolfish appetite assuage;

For glutting nourishment increased its rage.

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