THE DRUNKARD'S CHARACTER, 1646.
A drunkard is the annoyance of modesty, The trouble of civility, The spoil of wealth, The distraction of reason, He is only the brewers' agent, The tavern and alehouse benefactor, The beggar's companion, ; The constable's trouble. He is 'his wife's woe, His children's sorrow, His neighbor's scoff, . ■ His own shame. In summer he is a tub of swill, A spirit of sleep, , . - A picture of a beast, ' _ And a monster of a man. Talebearers are enemies to civil society. Whoever entertains thee with the' faults of others will entertain others with thine. Self- Satisfaction. — -None '". but. a conceited man can be very, happy in the contemplation of his Own excellencies. A man must be low in his requisitions of ■himself- thai. can say, "I am content with ,my ,own : attainments." A man that has the least, conception "of things high and noble must fiud, in measuring himself, that which 1 puts him to perpetual dissatisfaction.
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Nelson Evening Mail, Volume IV, Issue 289, 10 December 1869, Page 2
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159THE DRUNKARD'S CHARACTER, 1646. Nelson Evening Mail, Volume IV, Issue 289, 10 December 1869, Page 2
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