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The Wife grows wise by the Discourses of the Husband, and the Husband good-humour'd by the Conversations of the Wife. Their Virtues are blended in their Children, and diffuse through the whole Family a perpetual Spirit of Benevolence, Complacency, and Satisfaction. No. 129. Saturday, July 28, 1711. Addison. 'Vertentem sese frustra sectabere canthum, Cum rota posterior curras et in axe secundo.
It comforts the Stomach, and Strengthens the Bowels, preventing all Colicks and Fluxes. In one Word, it will make a Man live a great while, and very well while he does live. And what is more, it will even make Old Age amiable, by rendering it lively, chearful, and good-humour'd." Alas that only Chinamen and eighteenth-century Cavaliers could absorb the virtues of this sovereign herb!
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