He tried, good man! to make his friends repent.
“Nay, nay, my friends, from inns and taverns fly;
You may suppress your thirst, but not supply:
A foolish proverb says, ‘the devil’s at home;’
But he is there, and tempts in every room:
Men feel, they know not why, such places please;
His are the spells - they’re idleness and ease;
Magic of fatal kind he throws around,
Where care is banish’d, but the heart is bound.
“Think not of beauty; - when a maid you meet,