Gamesters and highwaymen are generally very good to their whores, but they are very devils to their wives.

'T is woman that seduces all mankind; By her we first were taught the wheedling arts.

When if or chance or hunger's powerful sway Directs the roving trout this fatal way, He greedily sucks in the twining bait, And tugs and nibbles the fallacious meat. Now, happy fisherman; now twitch the line! How thy rod bends! behold, the prize is thine!

Fair is the kingcup that in meadow blows, Fair is the daisy that beside her grows.

Look round, the wrecks of play behold; Estates dismember'd, mortgaged, sold! Their owners now to jails confin'd, Show equal poverty of mind.

To frame the little animal, provide All the gay hues that wait on female pride: Let Nature guide thee; sometimes golden wire The shining bellies of the fly require; The peacock's plumes thy tackle must not fail, Nor the dear purchase of the sable's tail.

Fill it up. I take as large draughts of liquor as I did of love. I hate a flincher in either.