Egence is the life of the universe : the highest forms of egence are variously called ' love ' : the lowest are simple appetence , perhaps merely physical .

Legree was not a habitual drunkard. His coarse, strong nature craved, and could endure, a continual stimulation, that would have utterly wrecked and crazed a finer one. But a deep, underlying spirit of cautiousness prevented his often yielding to appetite in such measure as to lose control of himself.

Saidiya Hartman, b. 1960s

Sit downe by her: adorned with my Crowne, As if thou wert the Empreſſe of the world.