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NYG(B.734.003
28 Jan-4 Feb 1734:11,12 (432)
In this time of scarcity of news, I thought it more proper
to entertain our readers with a story I found printed in the
Weekly Reversal, Jan. 7, 1733[-34] rather than to fill our
paper with old news. . . [18 lines]
The old severe and frugal way of living, is now almost quite
out of date in Holland; there is very little to be seen of
that sober modesty in apparel, diet, and habitations as
formerly. . . [article about a lavish banquet, in which the
Dutch are warned of the consequences of their rich diet and
life styles]. . . .col. 2, After this was brought in a
banquet of all sorts of sweet-meats, piled up in pyramids
and delicate fruit, with plenty of delicious wines; and to
conclude all, a set of musick and maskers who danced with
the young ladies: but at parting, like the hand-writing to
Belshazzar upon the wall, every one had a printed paper of
moralities put into their hands, shewing them the causes of
the ruin of the Roman Common-Wealth, according to that of
the poet,
Nullum crimen abest, facinusque libidinis, ex quo
Paupertas Romana perit.
with an excellent advice to them, that if they did not quit
the buffoneries and apish modes of the French, and return to
the simplicity, plainness and modesty of their ancestors and
founders, their Common-wealth could not long last. . .
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