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Al urpoſe were it to be ftuff’d and cramm’d with fo many dainty Bits, favoury Difhes, and toothfome Rarities, if after alf this Epicurifm ars, and the were not as well fofter’d Laughing, Jefting, and ents, which like Second € promoting of Digeſtion? And as to all thofe Shooing-horns of Drunkennefs, the keeping every one his Man, the throwing Hey-jinks, the filling of Bumpers, the drinking Two in a Hand, the beginning of Miftreffes Healths ; and then the roaring out whole Mind of Man, fuch like Divertifem the leading out every one: his Lady to Dance, not Taught or Di&ated by any of the Wife Men of Greece, but of Gotham rather, being my Invention, and by me prefcribed as the beft more Ridiculous it is, the more Welcome it finds. And indeed to jog fleepingly through the World in a dumpifh Melancholly Pefture cannot properly be faid to Zéve, but to be wound up as it were in a Winding-Sheet before we are Dead, and fo to be shuffled Quick Bur there are yet others perhaps that have no Guft in this Sort of Pleafure, but ru their greateſt Content in the Enjoyment o Friends, telling us that true a = ta c arr’d before all other Acquirements 5 be preferr’d 5 i Le
