REFLEXION.

The Life and Conversation of some Men is so Brutal, as if they had only

the Shape, without the Faculties of Reasonable Creatures. What’s He

better then the _Boar_ in This Fable now, that Abandons himself wholly

to his Appetites, and Pleasures; and after so many Repeated _Poxes_, and

Qualms, One upon the Neck of Another, _Drinks_ and _Whores_ on still,

in Despite of all Punishments, and Warnings. The _Boar_’s Intemperance,

and the Note upon him afterwards, on the Cutting of him up, that he had

no Brains in’s Head, may be Moraliz’d into the Figure of a Sensual Man,

that has neither Grace nor Knowledge, but runs headlong on to his Ruine,

without either Consideration, or Conscience.

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