Irresolute, protract the morning hours. 90

But let the man, whose bones are thinly clad,

With chearful ease, and succulent repast

Improve his slender habit. Each extreme

From the blest mean of sanity departs.

I could relate what table this demands, 95

Or that complexion; what the various powers

Of various foods: But fifty years would roll,

And fifty more, before the tale were done.

Besides, there often lurks some nameless, strange,