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The quotation is from S. Greenblatt's "The Swerve":

'In one of his memorable satirical grotesques, Shakespeare’s contemporary Ben Jonson
perfectly depicted the spirit in which Epicurus’ philosophy was for long centuries widely understood. “I’ll have all my beds blown up, not stuffed,” Jonson’s character declares. “Down is too hard.”

(Greenblatt goes forth with Jonson's satire...)
My meat shall all come in in Indian shells,
Dishes of agate, set in gold, and studded,
With emeralds, sapphires, hyacinths, and rubies. . . .
My foot-boy shall eat pheasants, calvered salmons,
Knots, godwits, lampreys. I myself will have
The beards of barbels served instead of salads;
Oiled mushrooms; and the swelling unctuous paps
Of a fat pregnant sow, newly cut off,
Drest with an exquisite and poignant sauce;
For which, I’ll say unto my cook, “There’s gold,
Go forth and be a knight.”

The name Jonson gave to this mad pleasure seeker is Sir Epicure
Mammon...'

I'm not sure what I should make of "down is too hard." Is it that beds which are not blown up (apparently, these are stuffed ones) are down on the ground (which seems quite possible, thinking of Jonson's days at least, 16th or 17th century) and hence, hard?