"Riotise" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... fond Unthriftyhead, Lewd Losse of Time, and Sorrow seeming dead, Inconstant Chaunge, and false Disloyalty, Consuming Riotise, and guilty Dread Of heavenly vengeaunce; faint Infirmity, Vile Poverty, and lastly Death ...
— Stones of Venice [introductions] • John Ruskin
... he did esloyne, And greatly shunned manly exercise, From every worke he chalenged essoyne,[*] For contemplation sake: yet otherwise, 175 His life he led in lawlesse riotise; By which he grew to grievous malady; For in his lustlesse limbs through evill guise A shaking fever raignd continually: Such one was Idlenesse, first of ...
— Spenser's The Faerie Queene, Book I • Edmund Spenser |
