rfeits upon cursed necromancy/Nothing so sweet as magic is to him/Which he prefers before his chiefest bliss-/And this the man that in his study sits.”
Gluttony, personified, only has two dialogue exchanges with Faustus. In the first and lengthiest he details his background, parentless condition and discloses a pension that allows him “thirty meals a day and ten bevers” (Marlowe 50). Of course, in keeping with Christian ideology, the Glutton is not breaking any laws by eating food and taking a drink, they are natural pleasures. However, he is going against Christian ideology by having more “pleasure...