"What do women care for lovers' sighs? I believe, gentlemen, they like to be carried by assault. Who can resist a brave fellow, all fire and passion, who marches to the attack with a confident laugh and a gallant bearing? It is the nature of the sex to admire gallantry. Therefore, gentlemen, put on your best ruffles, cock your hats, tie your wigs, settle the angle of your swords, and on with a hearty countenance. "I remember, being then in Constantinople, and at a slave-market where Circassians were to be bought, there came into the place as handsome a young Turk as ever you might wish to set eyes upon. Perhaps he was a poet, because when he had the slaves brought out for his inspection, at sight of the prettiest and youngest of them all, he fell to sighing just like an English gentleman in love. Presently there came in an old ruffler of fifty, who, without any sighs or protestations, tugged out his purse and bought the slave, and she went off delighted at having fetched so good a price and pleased so resolute a fellow." The Doctor continued to pour forth stories of adventure and experience, interspersed with philosophical maxims. He told of courts and cities as he saw them in the year 1720, which was the year in which he made the Grand Tour with the late Lord Chudleigh. He told old tales of Cambridge life. While he talked the company listened, drank, and smoked; no one interrupted him. Meanwhile he sent the punch about, gave toasts--with every glass a toast, with every toast a full glass--and swore that on such a night no one should pay but himself, wherefore let every man fill up. "Come, gentlemen, we let the glasses flag. I will sing you another song, written for the good old days of Tom D'Urfey, when men were giants, and such humble topers as ourselves would have met with scant respect. "Come, all ye honest topers, lend an ear, lend an ear, While we drain the bowl and push the bottle round, bottle round; We are merry lads, and cosy, cosy here, cosy here; Though outside the toil and moil may resound, may resound. "Let us drink reformation to mankind, to mankind; Example may they follow from our ways, from our ways: And whereas to their follies they are blind, they are blind, Their eyes may they open to their craze, to their craze. "For the miser all day long hugs his gold, hugs his gold; And the lover for his mistress ever sighs, ever sighs: And the parson wastes his words upon his fold, upon his fold; And the merchant to the ledger glues his eyes, glues his eyes. "But we wrangle not, but laugh, while we drink, while we drink; And we envy no man's happiness or wealth, or his wealth; We rest from toil and cease from pen and ink, pen and ink; And we only pray for liquor and for health, and for health.