Among this gay race I was wandering, and found them ready to answer all my questions, and willing to communicate their mirth; but turning round, I saw two dreadful monsters entering the vale, one of whom I knew to be Age, and the other Want. Sport and revelling were now at an end, and an universal shriek of affright and distress burst out and awaked me.
No. 68.
SATURDAY, NOVEMBER 10, 1750.
Vivendum recte est, cum propter plurima, tum his
Præcipæ causis, ut linguas mancipiorum
Contemnas. Nam lingua mali pars pessima servi.
Juv. ix. 118.
Let us live well: were it alone for this
The baneful tongues of servants to despise
Slander, that worst of poisons, ever finds
An easy entrance to ignoble minds.