The following lines, written in the year 1609, are said to have induced
Butler to pursue the same idea in his _Hudibras_;

_Dialogue_.

_Glutton_.--My belly I do deify.

_Echo_.--Fie.

_Glutton_.--Who curbs his appetite's a fool.

_Echo_.--Ah! fool!

_Glutton_.--I do not like this abstinence.

_Echo_.--Hence!

_Glutton_.--My joy's a feast, my wish is wine.

_Echo_.--Swine.

_Glutton_.--We epicures are happy truly.

_Echo_.--You lie.

_Glutton_.--May I not, Echo, eat my fill.

_Echo_.--Ill.

_Glutton_.--Will it hurt me if I drink too much?

_Echo_.--Much.

_Glutton_.--Thou mock'st me nymph, I'll not believe it.

_Echo_.--Believe it.

_Glutton_.--Dost thou condemn then what I do?

_Echo_.--I do.

_Glutton_.--Is it that which brings infirmities?

_Echo_.--It is!

_Glutton_.--Then sweetest temperance I'll love thee.

_Echo_. I love thee..

{If all be true which thou
_Glutton_. { dost tell,
{To gluttony I bid farewell.

_Echo_.--Farewell.

W.A.

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EPITAPH ON A GAMESTER.

Here lies a gamester, poor but willing,
Who left the room without a shilling.
Losing each stake, till he had thrown
His last, and lost the game to Death;
If Paradise his soul has won,
'Twas a rare stroke of luck i'faith!

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Suicide is very common among the New Zealanders: thus, a woman who has
been beaten by her husband will perhaps hang herself immediately.

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LIMBIRD'S EDITION OF THE

_Following Novels is already Published_:

_s_. _d_.
Mackenzie's Man of Feeling 0 6
Paul and Virginia 0 6
The Castle of Otranto 0 6
Almoran and Hamet 0 6
Elizabeth, or the Exiles of Siberia 0 6
The Castles of Athlin and Dunbayne 0 6
Rasselas 0 8
The Old English Baron 0 8
Nature and Art 0 8
Goldsmith's Vicar of Wakefield 0 10
Sicilian Romance 1 0
The Man of the World 1 0
A Simple Story 1 4
Joseph Andrews