00 Wagram Slab

Standing patterers

Long-tailed beggar

Newgate fringe

Rosin-the-bow

Chapel-of-ease

120 fresh herrings

“eight-hours-at-the-sea-side”

Shalley-gonahey

Bookmaker’s Pocket

Shalley-gonahey

“if you ain’t sharp, he’ll lick you”

Jack Nasty-face

Tellement de jeunes qui me voient comme un héros

Jamais d’la vie j’peux devenir un zéro

Sur ma Switch, j’ai tous les jeux rétro

Avant toutes choses, je dois mettre le gel

C’est pas une ange, elle ressemble à Angèle

J’ai de la frappe, le produit flagelle

On veut des diamants quand on dodo, G

Elle vient du 9-2, elle a un bête de boule

Elle vient du 9-2, elle met du Beat de Boul

Je chante sur le beat

Je le pensais pas mais elle est plutôt cool

Je regarde la vie au kaléidoscope

Consider in my mind, for example’s sake, the times of Vespasian: thou shalt see but the same things: some marrying, some bringing up children, some sick, some dying, some fighting, some feasting, some merchandising, some tilling, some flattering, some boasting, some suspecting, some undermining, some wishing to die, some fretting and murmuring at their present estate, some wooing, some hoarding, some seeking after magistracies, and some after kingdoms. And is not that their age quite over, and ended? Again, consider now the times of Trajan. There likewise thou seest the very self-same things, and that age also is now over and ended. In the like manner consider other periods, both of times and of whole nations, and see how many men, after they had with all their might and main intended and prosecuted some one worldly thing or other did soon after drop away, and were resolved into the elements. But especially thou must call to mind them, whom thou thyself in thy lifetime hast known much distracted about vain things, and in the meantime neglecting to do that, and closely and unseparably (as fully satisfied with it) to adhere unto it, which their own proper constitution did require. And here thou must remember, that thy carriage in every business must be according to the worth and due proportion of it, for so shalt thou not easily be tired out and vexed, if thou shalt not dwell upon small matters longer than is fitting.

For he is a happy man, who in his lifetime dealeth unto himself a happy lot and portion.

How marvellous useful it is for a man to represent unto himself meats, and all such things that are for the mouth, under a right apprehension and imagination! as for example: This is the carcass of a fish; this of a bird; and this of a hog. And again more generally; This phalernum, this excellent highly commended wine, is but the bare juice of an ordinary grape. This purple robe, but sheep’s hairs, dyed with the blood of a shellfish. So for coitus, it is but the attrition of an ordinary base entrail, and the excretion of a little vile snivel, with a certain kind of convulsion: according to Hippocrates his opinion. How excellent useful are these lively fancies and representations of things, thus penetrating and passing through the objects, to make their true nature known and apparent! This must thou use all thy life long, and upon all occasions: and then especially, when matters are apprehended as of great worth and respect, thy art and care must be to uncover them, and to behold their vileness, and to take away from them all those serious circumstances and expressions, under which they made so grave a show. For outward pomp and appearance is a great juggler; and then especially art thou most in danger to be beguiled by it, when (to a man’s thinking) thou most seemest to be employed about matters of moment.

A happy lot and portion is, good inclinations of the soul, good desires, good actions.