of the f***ly. She determines what he loves best, and how much he shall eat; and if the master of the house happens to be of the same disposition, he proceeds in the same tyrannical manner to prescribe in the drinking part: at the same time, you are under the necessity of answering a thousand apologies for your entertainment. And although a good deal of this humour is pretty well worn off among many people of the best fashion, yet too much of it still remains, especially in the country; where all honest gentleman assured me. that having been kept four days, against his will, at a friend’s house, with all the circumstances of hiding his boots, locking up the stable, and other countrivances of the like the house to the moment he left it, any one thing, wherein his inclination was not directly contradicted; as if the whole f***ly had entered into a combination to torment him.