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Too much sugar spoils one's tea; I think I have heard that even prosperity will cloy when it comes in overdoses; and a schoolboy has been known to be overdone with jam.

From Relics of General Chasse by Trollope, Anthony

Then tell me not that I shall grow   Forlorn, that fields and woods will cloy; From Nature and her changes flow   An everlasting tide of joy.

From Wild Flowers Or, Pastoral and Local Poetry by Bloomfield, Robert

But joy incessant palls the sense; And love, unchanged, will cloy, And she became a bore intense Unto her love-sick boy!

From The Complete Plays of Gilbert and Sullivan by Gilbert, W. S. (William Schwenck), Sir

But joy incessant palls the sense; And love unchanged will cloy, And she became a bore intense Unto her love-sick boy?

From Songs of a Savoyard by Gilbert, W. S. (William Schwenck), Sir

It is that thou thro' future years May meet with very much of joy, And just a little grief, because Continued happiness will cloy.

From Canada and Other Poems by Young, T. F. (Thomas Frederick)