526 PEOSE HALIBUTICS. 



Then spleen and pique, like fireworks thrown in spite, 

 To mischief turn the pleasures of the night ; 

 Anger abuses, malice loudly rails, 

 Revenge awakes, and anarchy prevails ; 

 Till wiae, that raised the tumult, makes it cease. 

 And maudlin love insists on instant peace. 

 He noisy mirth and roaring song commands, 

 Gives idle toasts, and joins xinfriendly hands. 

 Till fuddled friendship vows esteem and weeps, 

 And jovial foUy drinks, and sings, and sleeps.* 



In the midst of the disgraceful excesses of our ances- 

 tors, their wives, our grandmothers, at least remained 

 sober ; but this unfortunately was not the case with the 

 ancient dames of Greece and Rome, ' cum vino simul 

 ebibuerunt imperium,' in drinking they lost all reverence 

 of their lords' instructions. Phsedrus' fable of the old 

 woman snuffing an empty wine-cask, and finding some 

 satisfaction even in the smell of the lees, is borne out as 

 regards aged females by such proverbs as anus ad armil- 

 lum — the hag and the hogshead ; and ' they think but 



Trptv fiedveiv ap^ fi*, airaviaTacro^ firj tre ^td<rda) 

 yacTTrjp, aare KaKov XaTpiv ecjiTjfiepiov. — Theognts. 



Now mind you thij, my friend, 

 And don't indulge in drinking to excess, 

 But rise from table ere the wine begins 

 To take effect, nor let your appetite 

 Reduce you to become its daily slave. 



Trans. hy'C. D. Yonge. 



t So to the same purpose, in his ' Ulysses the Weaver :' ■ 



^iXei yap 1) fiaxpa (rvvovtrla 

 Koi Ta avfiir6(ria ra ttoXK^ TrjV Kaff rjp-epay Troteiv 

 (TK&ijnv rj CTKayjns Sc Xmrei TrXelov j; repTTCi noKv- 

 Tov KUK&s XeyEiy yap ap^rj yiveT- &v 8" cIttj]! aira^, 

 evdvs dvrfjKovu-as, ^8rj XoiBopeXa-dai Xelirerai. 

 Eira TiTTTfo-Bai beSeiKTai Kal irapowfiv, ravra yap 

 Kara <f>v(Tiv TreffyvKCV ovras' ov ri pAvretos eSft. 



