When Maenius, having bravely made away with his paternal and maternal estates, began to be accounted a merry fellow-- a vagabond droll, who had no certain place of living; who, when dinnerless, could not distinguish a fellow- citizen from an enemy; unmerciful in forging any scandal against any person; the pest, and hurricane, and gulf of the market; whatever he could get, he gave to his greedy gut. This fellow, when he had extorted little or nothing from the favorers of his iniquity, or those that dreaded it, would eat up whole dishes of coarse tripe and lamb 's entrails; as much as would have sufficed three bears; then truly,[ like] reformer Bestius, would he say, that the bellies of extravagant fellows ought to be branded with a red- hot iron. The same man[ however], when he had reduced to smoke and ashes whatever more considerable booty he had gotten;' Faith, said he, I do not wonder if some persons eat up their estates; since nothing is better than a fat thrush, nothing finer than a lage sow 's paunch. In fact, I am just such another myself; for, when matters are a little deficient, I commend, the snug and homely fare, of sufficient resolution amid mean provisions; but, if any thing be offered better and more delicate, I, the same individual, cry out, that ye are wise and alone live well, whose wealth and estate are conspicuous from the elegance of your villas. 