"The Gentleman who dines the latest Is, in our Street, esteemed the greatest: But surely greater than them all, Is he who never Dines[82] at all." DINNERS at _Night_, AND SUPPERS in the _Morning_, A few Cautionary Hints to Modern Fashionables.-- "The Ancients did delight, forsooth, To sport in allegoric Truth; Apollo, as we long have read since, Was God of Music, and of Med'cines. _In Prose_, APOLLO is the Sun, And when he has his course begun, The allegory then implies 'Tis Time for wise men to arise; For ancient sages all commend The morning, as the Muses friend; But modern Wits are seldom able To sift the moral of this fable;-- But give to Sleep's oblivious power The treasures of the morning hour, And leave reluctant, and with Pain, With feeble nerve, and muddy Brain, Their favorite couches late at noon, And quit them then perhaps too soon, Mistaking by a sunblind sight The Night for Day--and Day for Night. Quitting their healthful guide Apollo, What fatal follies do they follow! _Dinners_ at night--and in the Morn _Suppers_, serv'd up as if in scorn Of Nature's wholesome regulations, Both in their Viands and Potations. Besides, Apollo is M. D. As all Mythologists agree, And skill'd in Herbs and all their virtues, As well as Ayton is, or Curtis. No doubt his excellence would stoop To dictate a Receipt for _Soup_, Show as much skill in dressing _Salad_, As in composing of a _Ballad_, 'Twixt Health and Riot draw a line, And teach us How--and When--to dine. The Stomach, that great Organ, soon, If overcharg'd, is out of tune, Blown up with Wind that sore annoys The Ear with most unhallow'd noise!! Now all these Sorrows and Diseases A man may fly from if he pleases; For rising early will restore His powers to what they were before, Teach him to Dine at Nature's call, And to Sup lightly, if at all; Teach him each morning to preserve The active brain, and steady nerve; Provide him with a share of Health For the pursuit of fame, or wealth; And leave the folly of _Night Dinners_ To Fools and Dandies, and Old Sinners!!!" That distressing interruption of the Circulation, which is called "NIGHTMARE," "Globus Hystericus," "Spasms," "Cramp," or "Gout," in the Stomach, with which few who have passed the Meridian of Life[83], are so fortunate as not to be too well acquainted, we believe to arise from the same causes--which in the day produce Palpitation of the Heart. The Editor is now in his forty-third year, and has been from his youth occasionally afflicted with both these disorders; sometimes without being able to imagine what has produced them:--sometimes he has not been attacked with either of these complaints for many months; they have then seized him for a week or more,--and as unaccountably ceased.