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its preſent indiſpoſition is the conſequence of the exceſſes you have been guilty of; & I am confident, that if you do not immediately quit the way you have long been purſuing, you will ſoon bring yourſelf to the grave. Have you read, ſaid the gentleman, the book concerning dram-drinking, which I ſome time ago diſperſed in the neighbourhood? Timothy owned that he had not. What is become of it? ſaid Mr. Andrews, 10 which the other replied that he did not know. Obſerving a parcel of books lying on a ſhelf, Mr. Andrews looked among them and found it, and begged of Timothy to take the opportunity of reading it in his ſober moments. You do not conſider, ſaid the gentleman, what injury you do to yourſelf by the ſhocking cuſtom you give way to; and how ridiculous you are become by it! I am ſure when I ſaw you ſometime ago at the George. you had neither the ſpeech, the carriage, nor the civility of a man; nay, you had funk yourſelf below a brute; for brutes are what God made them, but a drunken man is more contemptible than any beaſt. He is no longer fit for human converſation, but is a nuiſance and diſturbance to all about him, the grief of his family and friends, and the laughter of others: and the beſt that can be done for him, is to lay him ſomewhere out of the way, till time and ſleep have recovered his ſenſes, and
