. I went to
visit the crazy wretch this morning, with no other purpose but to rally
him, under the pain and uneasiness of being sober.

But as our faults are double when they effect others besides ourselves,
so this vice is still more odious in a married than a single man.

23. He that is the husband of a woman of honour, and comes home
overloaded with wine, is still more contemptible, in proportion to the
regard we have to the unhappy consort of his bestiality. The imagination
cannot shape to itself any thing more monstrous and unnatural, than the
familiarities between drunkenness and chastity. The wretched _Astraea_,
who is the perfection of beauty and innocence, has long been thus
condemned for life. The romantic tales of virgins devoted to the jaws of
monsters, have nothing in them so terrible, as the gift of _Astraea_ to
that bacchanal.

24. The reflection of such a match as spotless innocence with abandoned
lewdness, is what puts this vice in the worst figure it can bear with
regard to others; but when it is looked upon with respect only to the
drunkard himself, it has deformities enough to make it disagreeable,
which may be summed up in a word, by allowing, that he who resigns his
reason, is actually guilty of all that he is liable to from the want of
reason.

TATLER, Vol. IV, No. 241.

_Gaming_.

SIR,

1. 'As soon as you have set up your unicorn, there is no question but
the ladies will make him push very furiously at the men; for which
reason, I think it is good to be beforehand with them, and make the lion
roar aloud at female irregularities. Among these I wonder how their
gaming has so long escaped your notice.

2. 'You who converse with the sober family of the _Lizards_, are,
perhaps, a stranger to these viragoes; but what would you say, should
you see the _Sparkler_ shaking her elbow for a whole night together, and
thumping the table with a dice-box? Or how would you like to hear good
widow lady herself returning to her house at midnight and alarming the
whole street with a most enormous rap, after having sat up till that
time at crimp or ombre? Sir, I am the husband of one of these female
gamesters, and a great loser by it both in rest my and pocket. As my
wife reads your papers, one upon this subject might be of use both to
her, and;

YOUR HUMBLE SERVANT.'

3. I should ill deserve the name of _Guardian_, did I not caution all my
fair wards against a practice, which, when it runs to e