98 SHOOTING: 



The quantity that's harmless to your friend, 

 If ta'en by you, may make your reason bend, 

 Or vice versa ; alike we are not all, 

 To some as honey, 'tis to others gall. 

 You may believe me, more than once I've seen 

 A First-rate beaten by a Stripling green, 

 Because the former half the night must pass 

 In pleasing converse, o'er his cheerful glass ! 

 Avoid such boosing, your bed early take, 

 You'll be rewarded, as you vig'rous 'wake ; 

 And in your shooting togs will feel quite able 

 To do full justice at the breakfast table ; 

 And when you're there, a good foundation lay, \ 

 Or peckish 'gain you'll be before mid -day, 

 When from such plenty you are far away. 



I advocate an early rise, and fix, 

 When left to me, no later start than six; 

 Tho' some aver two hours from this will give 

 You better sport th' avouch I don't believe ; 



