REFLEXION.

Flesh and Bloud is but Flesh and Bloud; and the Indulging of Inordinate

Appetites is the Ruine of Body, Soul, and Estate. This Fellow should have

Consulted the Circumstances of his Constitution, before he made that

Desperate Leap; for when a Man is Plung’d into an Irrevocable State of

Misery, he has but a Cold bus’ness on’t to Comfort himself with a Jest.

And ’twas but a Measuring Cast at Last neither, whether he meant his Wife

should have to do with the _Wolfe_, in _One_ Sense, or the _Wolfe_ with

his _Wife_ in _Another_.

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