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This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1739 Excerpt: ...K 3 We We discommend it not; act thou the same, Nor leave untrod a Path which leads to Fame, Deal thus with all the World excepting me; For thou and I may chance to disagree: My Cudgel, then, shall gratefully repay Those Obligations, in a proper Way. CHAP, V. Of Greediness at Table and of Spuing; Of Laughter, and of other civil Doing, AThousand Things occur, by which you can At Supper show yourself a clownish Man: Show, that you (hating to become severe) To musty Morals never lent an Ear. Cou'd I, like Virgil, in immortal Lays, The God-like Acts of Kings and Heroes praise, The Muse, not even then, wou'd undertake Each Misbehaviour to commemorate. A little shall suffice, tho' gladly we Our own Out-doings find out-done by thee; Attend a while (perhaps you'll not repent) The Time, tho' short, will gainfully be spent: Attend the rather, since the Time is short; To me for Wisdom one and all resort. The brimming Bowls on Purpose overset: Let all Things with a purple Show'r be wet: Time out of Mind the Custom hath been so, And Precedents can neves err, we know. Oft have I seen, when Liquor made 'em gay, Young Men, their mirthful Talents to display, Take up Vast Handfuls both of Meat and Bread, And throw the same at each Companion's Head. / With Pranks like these they pass away their Prime,, And thus destroy that All-destroyer Time. K 4 Old Old Men are much at one, tho' Time hath spread Its grey Experience o'er the hoary Head; How then must Boys behave, when Deeds like these Their Sires, their Grandsires, and. their Tutors please i Such venerable Fools we don't direct, Such, of their own Accord, know how to act: We, only to the junior Sots, profess To teach what's misbecoming, more or leis. Two Crusts are to be met with in a Loaf, Who knows it not must be an errant...
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This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1739 Excerpt: ...K 3 We We discommend it not; act thou the same, Nor leave untrod a Path which leads to Fame, Deal thus with all the World excepting me; For thou and I may chance to disagree: My Cudgel, then, shall gratefully repay Those Obligations, in a proper Way. CHAP, V. Of Greediness at Table and of Spuing; Of Laughter, and of other civil Doing, AThousand Things occur, by which you can At Supper show yourself a clownish Man: Show, that you (hating to become severe) To musty Morals never lent an Ear. Cou'd I, like Virgil, in immortal Lays, The God-like Acts of Kings and Heroes praise, The Muse, not even then, wou'd undertake Each Misbehaviour to commemorate. A little shall suffice, tho' gladly we Our own Out-doings find out-done by thee; Attend a while (perhaps you'll not repent) The Time, tho' short, will gainfully be spent: Attend the rather, since the Time is short; To me for Wisdom one and all resort. The brimming Bowls on Purpose overset: Let all Things with a purple Show'r be wet: Time out of Mind the Custom hath been so, And Precedents can neves err, we know. Oft have I seen, when Liquor made 'em gay, Young Men, their mirthful Talents to display, Take up Vast Handfuls both of Meat and Bread, And throw the same at each Companion's Head. / With Pranks like these they pass away their Prime,, And thus destroy that All-destroyer Time. K 4 Old Old Men are much at one, tho' Time hath spread Its grey Experience o'er the hoary Head; How then must Boys behave, when Deeds like these Their Sires, their Grandsires, and. their Tutors please i Such venerable Fools we don't direct, Such, of their own Accord, know how to act: We, only to the junior Sots, profess To teach what's misbecoming, more or leis. Two Crusts are to be met with in a Loaf, Who knows it not must be an errant...
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