Here is nothing drank but ale, and every gentleman hath his separate
mug, which he chalks on the table where he sits as it is brought in; and
every one retires when he pleases, as from a coffee-house.
The room is always so diverted with songs, and drinking from one table
to another to one another's healths, that there is no room for politics,
or any thing that can sour conversation.
One must be there by seven to get room, and after ten the company are
for the most part gone.
This is a winter's amusement, that is agreeable enough to a stranger for
once or twice, and he is well diverted with the different humours, when
the Mugs overflow.
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JOY AND SORROW.
The light of heaven unheeded shines,
If cloudless be our skies;
But when it beams on life's dark clouds,
What _rainbow_ beauties rise!
_Lit. Gaz._
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INSCRIBED ON A CLOCK.
Improve time in time while time lasts,
For all time's no time when time's past.
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Purchasers of the MIRROR, who may wish to complete their sets are
informed, that every volume is complete in itself, and may be purchased
separately.
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