Laconics.
In the reign of Charles II. a certain worthy divine at Whitehall thus addressed himself to the auditory at the conclusion of his sermon: "In short, if you don't live up to the precepts of the Gospel, but abandon yourselves to [[287]]your irregular appetites, you must expect to receive your reward in a certain place which 't is not good manners to mention here."[287:1]
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Laconics.
Footnotes
[286:2] A slightly different version is found in Brown's Works collected and published after his death:—
Non amo te, Sabidi, nec possum dicere quare;
Hoc tantum possum dicere, non amo te
(I do not love thee, Sabidius, nor can I say why; this only I can say, I do not love thee).—Martial: Epigram i. 33.
Je ne vous aime pas, Hylas;
Je n'en saurois dire la cause,