They daunce and pleyen at dees bothe day and nyght,
And eten also and drynken over hir myght,
Thurgh which they doon the devel sacrifise
Withinne that develes temple in cursed wise
By superfluytee abhomynable.
– Geoffrey Chaucer
The Canterbury Tales, The Pardoner’s Tale. The young roisterers dance and play at dice day and night, and also indulge in gluttony – one of the Seven Deadly Sins – by eating and drinking beyond their capacity. So they turn the temple of the body into the Devil’s temple with their abominable excesses. A biblical allusion to 1 Corinthians 6:19: "Do you not know that your bodies are temples of the Holy Spirit, who is in you, whom you have received from God? You are not your own."