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NYM(G.773.215
15 Nov 1773:1123 (1151)
The first thing I would recommend to you as an antidote
against the love of pleasure, is-marriage. . . [continues
for 1 column and 1 paragraph to explain this and two other
recommendations] The fourth thing which I would recommend as
an antidote against licentiousness is--action. . . [lists
all the evil effects of idleness, including] scheming of all
kinds, rompings, routs, balls, masquerades, violent
passions. . . [25 more lines] If your fortune places you
above business,--ride, walk, run, hunt, fish, fence, swim,
you may even dance. . . [continues offering alternatives to
idleness for rest of column and for 12 lines in column 3]
What, then, has the great man been doing with his fortune?
He has been purchasing girls, hiring barbers, paying French
cooks, bribing voters, maintaining taylors, pampering
valets. . . ; he has given balls and assemblies, and
masquerades, and seen plays, and routs, and horse races, and
bear baitings, and cock fights--- Good Heaven!. . . [42 more
lines, concludes with] Finally, let him that standeth, take
heed lest he fall; and, if he has already fallen, let him
repent and sin no more. Amen.
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