Gluttony
 
 
Here's what Bishop Ignatius Brianchaninov, a nineteenth-century Russian monk, had to say about Gluttony:
Wise temperance of the stomach is a door to all the virtues. Restrain the stomach, and you will enter Paradise. But if you please
and pamper your stomach, you will hurl yourself over the precipice of bodily impurity, into the fire of wrath and fury, you will
coarsen and darken your mind, and in this way you will ruin your powers of attention and self-control, your sobriety and
vigilance. (gluttony web page)
 
 
Gluttony
  "For the drunkard and the
      gluttonous shall come to poverty;
       and drowsiness shall clothe a man
     with rags."
    Proverbs 23:21
 

Definitions and examples of Gluttony:

The vice of excessive eating. (One of the seven deadly sins.)
        Examples:
14.. Lydg. Assemb. Gods 628 Aftyr whom rood Glotony, with hys fat berde.

     1500-20 Dunbar Poems xxvi. 91 Than the fowll monstir Glutteny, Off wame vnsasiable and gredy, To dance he did him dress.

     1590 Spenser F.Q. i. iv. 21.

     1634 Milton Comus 776 Swinish gluttony Ne'er looks to heav'n amidst his gorgeous feast, But..Crams, and blasphemes his feeder.
 
 

Gluttony as perceived in The Faerie Queene:

    Gluttony rode on a filthy pig directly behind Idleness.  Spenser describes him as a deformed man or creature with a huge belly.  His neck is long and his body is swollen.  He used his long neck and huge frame to "Swallowd vp excessiue feast" (Stanza 21 Book 1).  In addition to all of this he was vomiting as he rode his filthy pig.  Gluttony had little to no clothes on  and was sweating profusely because of the heat.  As he rode, he ate.  Spenser says he looked more like a drunken monster than a man.