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surfeit

«If music be the food of love, play on; give me excess of it, that, surfeiting, the appetite may sicken and so die.»
«And take heed to yourselves, lest at any time your hearts be overcharged with surfeiting, and drunkenness, and cares of this life, and so that day come upon you unawares.»
«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»
«Love comforteth like sunshine after rain, But lust's effect is tempest after sun; Love's gentle spring doth always fresh remain, Lust's winter comes ere summer half be done; Love surfeit's not, Lust like a glutton dies, Love is all truth, Lust full»
«They are as sick that surfeit with too much, as they that starve with nothing.»
«A surfeit of the sweetest things the deepest loathing of the stomach brings»