All 3 Uses of
surfeit
in
Henry IV, Part 2
- The commonwealth is sick of their own choice; Their over-greedy love hath surfeited: An habitation giddy and unsure Hath he that buildeth on the vulgar heart.†
Scene 1.3 *
- Briefly to this end: we are all diseased, And with our surfeiting and wanton hours Have brought ourselves into a burning fever, And we must bleed for it; of which disease Our late king, Richard, being infected, died.†
Scene 4.1
- I have long dream'd of such a kind of man, So surfeit-swell'd, so old, and so profane; But, being awaked, I do despise my dream.†
Scene 5.5
Definition:
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(surfeit) an excessive amount
or:
eating until excessively full