Careful Words

surfeit (n.)

surfeit (v.)

  Had I a dozen sons, each in my love alike and none less dear than thine and my good Marcius, I had rather eleven die nobly for their country than one voluptuously surfeit out of action.

William Shakespeare (1564-1616): Coriolanus. Act i. Sc. 3.

How charming is divine philosophy!

Not harsh and crabbed, as dull fools suppose,

But musical as is Apollo's lute,

And a perpetual feast of nectar'd sweets

Where no crude surfeit reigns.

John Milton (1608-1674): Comus. Line 476.

  They are as sick that surfeit with too much, as they that starve with nothing.

William Shakespeare (1564-1616): The Merchant of Venice. Act i. Sc. 2.