136 ORIGIN OF SOCIETY. CANTO iv. 



The whip, the sting, the spur, the fiery brand, 



And, cursed Slavery! thy iron hand; 



And led by Luxury Disease's trains, 



Load human life with unextinguish'd pains. 



" Here laughs Ebriety more fell than arms, 

 And thins the nations with her fatal charms, 

 With Gout, and Hydrops groaning in her train, 

 And cold Debility, and grinning Pain, 80 



With harlot's smiles deluded man salutes, 

 Revenging all his cruelties to brutes! 

 There the curst spells of Superstition blind, 

 And fix her fetters on the tortured mind; 

 She bids in dreams tormenting shapes appear, 

 With shrieks that shock Imagination's ear, 



they cease to have their faculties excited into their usual activity, and 

 become unhappy, I suppose from the too great accumulation of the 

 sensorial power of volition; which wants the accustomed stimulus or 

 motive to cause its expenditure. 



Here laughs Ebriety. 1. 77. 



Sasvior armis 



Luxuria incubuit, victumque ulciscitur orbem. HORAC. 



