Soon as the potion works, their human count'nance,
Th' express resemblance of the Gods, is changed
Into some brutish form of wolf, or bear,

Or ounce, or tiger, hog, or bearded goat,
All other parts remaining as they were;
And they, so perfect is their misery,

Not once perceive their foul disfigurement,

But boast themselves more comely than before.

The Pleasures of Sense, unless moderately enjoyed, do not contribute to intellectual Excellence.

Multa tulit fecitque puer, sudavit et alsit,
Abstinuit venere et vino.

Nothing is so great a friend to the mind of man as abstinence; it strengthens the memory, clears the apprehension, and sharpens the judgment; and in a word, gives reason its full scope of acting: and when reason has that, it is always a diligent and faithful handmaid to conscience. And therefore, where men look no further than mere nature, which many do not, let no man expect to keep his glut

tony and his parts, his drunkenness and his wit, his revellings and his judgment, and much less his conscience, together. For neither grace nor nature will have it so. It is an utter contradiction to the methods of both. "Who hath woe? who hath sorrow? who hath contention? who hath babbling? who hath wounds without cause? who hath redness of eyes?" says Solomon; which question he himself presently answers-" They who tarry long at the wine; they who seek after mixed wine."-So say I: Who has a stupid intellect, a broken memory, and a blasted wit, and which is worse than all, a blind and benighted conscience, but the intemperate and luxurious, the epicure and the smell-feast? So impossible it is for a man to turn sot, without making himself a blockhead too. I know this is not always the present effect of these courses, but at long run it will infallibly be so. And time and luxury together will as certainly change the inside as it does the outside of the best heads whatsoever, and much more of such heads as are strong for nothing but to

bear drink: concerning which, it ever was, and is and will be a sure observation, that such as are ablest at the barrel are weakest at the booka.

Milton, speaking of his own morning occupations, says, "My morning haunts are where they should be, at home; not sleeping, or concocting the surfeits of an irregular feast, but up, and stirring; in winter, often ere the sound of any bell awake men to labour, or to devotion; in summer, as oft with the bird that first rises, or not much tardier, to read good authors, or cause them to be read, till the attention be weary, or memory have its full freight: then with useful and generous la

urs preserving the body's health and hardiness, to render lightsome, clear, and not lumpish obedience to the mind, to the cause of religion and our country's liberty, when it shall require firm hearts in sound bodies to stand and cover their stations, rather than to see the ruin of our protestation, and the enforcement of a slavish life."

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