With Yeſterday's Surcharge diſturb'd they be!
Nor Body only ſuff'ring, but the Mind,
That nobler Part, dull'd and depreſs'd we find.
Drowſie and unapt for Buſineſs, and other nobler Parts of Life.
Time was before Men in thoſe golden Days: Their Spirits were brisk and lively.
——Ubi dicto citius curata ſopori
Membra dedit, Vegetus præſcripta ad munera ſurgit.
With ſhorter, but much ſweeter Sleep content,
Vigorous and freſh, about their Buſineſs went.
And Men had their Wits about them; their Appetites were natural, their Sleep molli ſub arbore, ſound, ſweet, and kindly: That excellent Emperour Tacitus being us'd to ſay of Lettuce, that he did ſomnum ſe mercari when he eat of them, and call'd it a ſumptuous Feaſt, with a Sallet and a ſingle Pullet, which was uſually all the Fleſh-Meat that ſober Prince eat of; whilſt Maximinus (a profeſs'd Enemy to Sallet) is reported to have ſcarce been ſatisfied, with ſixty Pounds of Fleſh, and Drink proportionable.