Infernal Conference Or, Dialogues of Devils on the Many Vices Which Abound, Vol. 2 of 2

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Excerpt from Infernal Conference Or, Dialogues of Devils on the Many Vices Which Abound, Vol. 2 of 2: In the Civil and Religious WorldDr. Ringwood and Dr. Jowler, the celebrated tutors of his kennel. Their maxims he perfectly understands, and their virtues he has adopted, but five thousand a year you know, makes the study of the kennel truly classical.Talk you of Orpheus to him his worship proposes the virtue of Ringwood to your consideration. Do you admire the ardour which flames in the Iliads, his worship says, no music like the voice of Jowler. Tell him of the majesty of Virgil, he'll bid you mind well the gait of his horse, what a majestic creature he is. An emperor, says he, might be proud to ride such another. Do you recommend the pleasures solid learning to him, he is in raptures about the diversions of the chace. As jet he hath avoided the yoke of matrimony, not that he was ever an admirer of continence, few gentlemen being more conversant with the fair sex than his worship.He keeps in his house a wanton train of overfed servants, the superfluities of whose table would comfort the bowels of many indigent: besides a pack of hounds, which devour more than serves to maintain all the poor in the parish workhouse.About the PublisherForgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.comThis book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully, any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.