When unicorns have gluts or surfeits ta'en By browsing liquorice, they to regain Their stomachs and a cure crash bitter grass.
In another place, Hawkin the minstrel confesses to gluttony: "And more meat ate and drank than nature might digest, And caught sickness some time for my surfeits oft.
Twill be hard to be done in my opinion Unless we light upon an English-man With seven-score surfeits in him.
Let 'em go on, when they are swoln with Surfeits They'l burst and stink, then all the world shall smell 'em.
Henry the Eighth, a prince of famous memory, was wonte to drinke the distilled water of broome flowers against surfeits and diseases therefrom arising.
Perpetual surfeits of pleasure have filled his mind with bad and vicious humours (as well as his body with a nursery of diseases), which makes him affect new and extravagant ways as being sick and tired with the old.
Surfeits and wantonness are great agents for his employment, when by the secret of his skill out of others' weakness he gathers his own strength.
What authority surfeits on would relieve us; if they would yield us but the superfluity while it were wholesome, we might guess they relieved us humanely; but they think we are too dear.
If he fill'd His vacancy with his voluptuousness, Full surfeits and the dryness of his bones Call on him for't!
It helps hoarseness, and loss of voice, eases surfeits and head-ache coming of drunkenness, and opens obstructions of the liver and spleen, and therefore is good for that disease in children called the rickets.
It helpssurfeits exceedingly, cleanses, cools, and strengthens the liver, and causes it to make good blood, and good blood cannot make bad flesh.
Not that I have beaten you, but beaten one that will be beaten: one whose dull bodie will require launcing: As surfeits doe the diet, spring and full.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "surfeits" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
