Why weavers, gardeners, and gladiators--or a man with a pined leg (proceeding from some ailment in the _foot_)--should ever have had some tender nymph breaking her heart in secret for them, are points well and duly settled and accounted for by ancient and modern physiologists.
A water-drinker, provided he is a profess'd one, and does it without fraud or covin, is precisely in the same predicament: not that, at first sight, there is any consequence, or show of logic in it, "That a rill of cold water dribbling through my inward parts, should light up a torch in my _Jenny's_--"
----The proposition does not strike one; on the contrary, it seems to run opposite to the natural workings of causes and effects----
But it shews the weakness and imbecility of human reason.
----"And in perfect good health with it?"
--The most perfect, --Madam, that friendship herself could wish me----
"And drink nothing! --nothing but water?"
--Impetuous fluid! the moment thou pressest against the flood-gates of the brain----see how they give way!----

Why weavers, gardeners, and gladiators - or a man with a wasted leg - should ever have had some tender nymph breaking her heart in secret for them, are points well accounted for by ancient and modern physiologists.
A water-drinker, provided he is a professed one, and does it without fraud, is precisely in the same predicament: not that, at first sight, there is any logic in it, 'That a rill of cold water dribbling through my inward parts, should light up a torch in my Jenny's-'
- It seems to run opposite to the natural workings of causes and effects-
But it shows the weakness of human reason.
- 'And you are in perfect good health? And drink nothing but water?'
Impetuous fluid! the moment thou pressest against the flood-gates of the brain - see how they give way!
