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Saturn his legi sator, o dispense the larus hich e ath nacted athis festival hat concertas the poor, have si ready et forti in a b okUhiches en to them the do no obe; in statutes, the will be lableto those heau punishments hicli are annexed to the violatio of them. Take ieed, there fore, e rich, that e also do no transgressi hi laws, orneglecta hos command whicli I here et oin ovo per forna fora noue hewho dis obeys, affronis no me, ut a urn himself, hora ath commissioned me to dispense hic laws, not in a realia, ut face to face. He was motbound in chains, nor rough and diri y, a the oolisti a inters and poets
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genious men, languissi in overty an de spat : either ill ou m master,put an en to thes things, an bring us ali pon a levet.' That laidhe cannoti done : hat Clotho and the Parcae ordain, I anno reverseubur, a sar a m festiva extends I, ill et leve ou and thus it hallie doneci go his instant, Chronosolon, and write me seme laws, lachis may
LET O business, public o private, e done uring the festivat, exceptthat hicli contributes to ard spori, pleas ure, an delight, cooks and
Letione e oblige to account for the things intiuste to thei care during the festivat. Let o nquir be made into the mone or garment distributed. Let there e no ritin g, o public exercises, no disputes, o speeches, excepi suci as are ocular and facetious, and ma promote mirili and ollity.
LET the rich, o me timeae re the festivat, rite o n o a tabi et thenames of thei friends, with, ha the inten to give them, hici mali beo money, about a tentii par of thei annua in come besides ut of their apparet, an ali ha belong to them, haleve is superfluous, mean dirty,
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orin sui table to thei rank and condition et ali his be go ready, and thenightae fore the festivat, et them g through the necessary purgation, bythrowingiis ali heir avarice, me anness, love of si illi lucre, an alio hos ebad qualities hicli generali attend them. When they are thus Clean sed, let them sacrisice to Jupiter, theat ver of good things Mercury the beneficent; and the generous Apollo. Distribution e in made accord in to very an 's an and fortune, et the present he sent to thei frien d si e re sun-set. Let those lio carry the presenis, notae more than three o four of the
mos faith fui and oldest servants. Let ille inscribe o the tablet liat is sent, an ho much, that thecarrier ma noti suspecte os fraud. Let the servant drin only one cup e re the return, and not assi for
Let a doubie portioni every thingi sentato the me o letters for it isthei due. Let the messi ge, sent it the presenis, e modest, and in se reords: nothing that caninive offence no boastings of their altae. Leti ricli man sen any th in to the rich, nor invite hin to the east. Let nothingie keptiack of that whicli is appotia ted o beatven nor the intended beneficence repente OLI the person, for hom the gistris designed, e absent ne ear, et taereserved foraim the neXt. Let the rich pay the debis of their oor friends, and the rent of theirhouse, is the cannot afforest pay for it thenaseives and et theminquire me timeae re, hat tris the indigent mos stand in nee of
Let no the receive murmur or Omplain ; ut, hale verae the present, let it stem a greatine.
Let notares, cassis of wine, o fatiens, e sent a present at this festi-val; ut haleve a man mali receive at the Saturnalia, et hi in no laughat, o turn into ridicule. Let the an o letters, ho receives a present, seni back in return, lam ancient book iste has an that are good, and litable to the occasion o sonae ork of his orum; hateve helleases this let the ricli man receive
with a chearlat countenance, and rea it immediatel : siue thro aes it asside,
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o rei et scit, let hi in beware of the harpaniis, though the present e sent
EXACTI at twelve et the company athe. Let the ut an dicet produced e re bathing. Let ali sit down to in ne promiscuousy, and uias hanc mali place
Let ei ther hirth, rank, o fortune, mahe an distinctio during thes east. Let ali rint of the fame ine an letis di sorder of the ea or stomach of the ricli man, be an excuse or givin him a belle fort. Let the meati distributed quaily to all. Let the servant siewmo favou or affection to any lihout neglect, and without dela : et them notinive ore, orietter, o ne than to another; but et every thingi in Common. Let the cup-beareri quick-sighte an attentive to very guest, morethan to his master. Let there e cui si ali oris. I et the cupis friend shipa round and ali rin to all, venae fore themaster of the east.' Let o man drin Gho is no able to drinh. Let noua an ignorant ancer o fidie be introduced, ut hos on lyd horare perfect in thei art.
V a oor man es'. . This is singular : ut it was, probably, ithera punis his folly, in giving away What he could no afford to those ho di not an it, or his designin crast, ii akin present to the ricli, in hopes of receiving mice a much froin them in return. Couetuet in Iar . From thesesit is no improbabie bu Ben Iolinson might A the hint of his Leges Convivales. Letor man. An excellent maxim rea it, e counirn quires, an hospitable me of Dublin, and domo kill youi friend withaiiadnest.
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θ Lucii, has a Faust iti perhaps that offomelimes . Alinguo long on a Sub jeet, and queezing it, iste Ovid, to iis las Dregs. his stem tib the Cuse librogar ito the Saturnalia, the Ridicule of hic he is lotyto par mith, ad has theresere givemus thes Episties, bere, though there is a good Dea of Humbustin them, many of the same Coo liments are made, and the samerbo his repeate rebiob e et Dith in the truo prece lingiteces. The An er of the Rich a th, Conclusion is excellent, and contains somebus Observations, hich are confirmed bduist Experience. I ROTE ou orysome time ago in hat a miserable conditiones xvas, and that I asini the wors for 3 ou festivat; facie member right Pthen intimated o ou that I thought it nrea sonabi that sonae mould abound in
riches, appiness, and lea re, Without imparting any th in to the oor, whil other Nereia rving an at the time of the Saturnalia, ac received noransNer frona ou, Pthought prope once more t remin yo os t. t certain ly becomes ou most excellent Saturn, o put an enda this nequaldistributionis things, and egi the festivat. A things are OK, very man is, a thes prover says, ither amant, or a camel. Suppos a tragedy
The proverb. J r. μυραηξ η καμηλος an an or a camel, the largest opposed to the least os creatures Thi prover Was usuali applied torali hings in the extreme, an is here meant tosaguify that ali men Kere at that time ei ther very ricli or very poor.
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things fori read pulse, and onions, o sup n. On ou, Saturn, e depend ei theroo change thes things, and bring sal on a levet, or, hi chris the last refource, command the ricli nota e 1 oyevery thingi thenaseives, ut givem a quartern ut of thei bushel; and , before time and the mollis have eat up at thei garmenis, o besto me of
them po us o lothe Ursetve Nithai, rather hanci et them mouid in theirchest command them to in Vite, o and then, lauri sive sis o sup- per no after the present mode, ut in a libera an dioble manner, that ema aliae parta kers of their bount : et not ne man surisit imself ithdainties, his lave standingi him illae an ea n longer nor hen theservant comes torus, and we stretch ohat our and let hi in passi andini meruus the relics, without suffering us to ast them, ive thei master the wholehog, and then thro us the bones. et u notae Orce to as the cup- . bearer hal a doZen times for a raught, ut hen the master orders him, ethim ou it ut immediate ly, and give us a bum per above ait, et very
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yota sonae a m festivat this, as ou say, si ut jus and right, and theywillio a the ought unles the cara Produce any good ea n to the con
In the mean time, permit me to inform ou the pnor and indigent, thatyo are much deceived in our opinion concerning the rich and great to
Besides ali his, is there Was an thinis ver des rabie in riches and em-
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vanis, and women that ieid. to them more frona necessit than assection.
ie Nelsin thei rings, o gaZe pon thei fine cloathsa Dyo would et thematone to et o thei riches by thenaseives, the would the come of thei orenaccord, and invite o to sup illi them, meret that the might shew outhei cups, thei beds, abies, and ali heir treaires, hic areis no service to them, unies the are laen and admired an it is for our ah alone, that the value thenaseives o the possession of them. This, my good friendS, I have ritiei fora our comiar and satisfaction;