Secondly, eat not hastily and impatiently, but with such decent and timely action that your eating be a human act, subject to deliberation and choice; and that you may consider in the eating, whereas he that eats hastily cannot consider particularly of the circumstances, degrees, and little accidents and chances that happen in his meal, but may contract many little indecencies, and be suddenly surprised.

—Rev. Jeremy Taylor, On Christian Sobriety -Measures of temperance in eating..,The Whole Works of the Right Rev. Jeremy Taylor, Volume 3. THE RULE AND EXERCISES OF HOLY LIVING AND DYING….: The Rule and Exercises of Holy Living and Dying