Love and Madness: A Story Too True; In a Series of Letters Between Parties, Whose Names Would Perhaps Be Mentioned, Were They Less Known, Or Less Lamented (Classic Reprint)

Excerpt from Love and Madness: A Story Too True; In a Series of Letters Between Parties, Whose Names Would Perhaps Be Mentioned, Were They Less Known, or Less Lamented

At prefent the drum is beating up under my window for volunteers to 'bacchus-in plain Englilh, the drum tells me dinner is ready; for a drum gives us bloody-minded heroes an appetite for eating, as well as for fighting; nay, we get up by the beat of it, and it every night fends, or ought to fend us, to bed and to fleep. To-night it will be late before I get to one or the other, I fancy - indeed, the thoughts of you would pre vent thelatter. But, the next difgrace to refuting a challenge, is refufing a toafi. The merit of a jolly fellow and of a fpunge is much about the fame. For my part, no glafs of any liquor taftes as it {hould to me, but when I kifs my M. On the rim.

Adieu - Whatever hard fervice I may have after dinner, no quantity of wine {hall make me yet drop or forget my appointment with you to morrow. We certainly were not feen yelterday, for reafons I will give you.

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