Excerpt from Memoirs of the Forty-Five First Years of the Life of James Lackington Booksellers Care to our coflin adds a nail no doubt, And ev'ry grin, so merry, draws one out; I own I like to laugh, and hate to sigh, And think, that risibility was giv'a For human happiness, by gracious heav'n, 'and that we came not into life to cry To wear long faces, just as if our maker, The God of goodness, was an undertaker, Well pleas'd to wrap the soul's unlucky mien, In sorrow's dismal crape or bombasine Methinks I hear the lord of nature say, Fools how you plague me! Go, be Wise, be gay. Mirth be your motto - merry be your heart; Good laughs are pleasant inoffensive things. Peter pindar. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This 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.