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A DISCOURSE

DEHORTING FROM

EATING BEEF,

Delivered under the Person of an Ox.[1]


"I request, good people, that you will listen to what I have to say. In the whole world there is no distress equal to that of an ox. In spring and summer, in autumn and winter, he diligently exerts his strength: during the four seasons there is no respite to his labours.

"I, an ox, drag the plow, a thousand

  1. In the original of this piece, the characters which form the discourse, are arranged so as to form the figure of an ox.

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