Beware
of riot, excess & intemperance, which hath drown’d & devoured
ye most pregnant parts & choicest of witts - See more at:
http://www.cam.ac.uk/research/news/advice-for-freshers-in-1660-goe-not-a-gadding-and-gossiping-from-chamber-to-chamber#sthash.XTd7YBu1.dpuf
"Beware of riot, excess & intemperance, which hath drown'd & devoured ye most pregnant parts & choicest of witts."I wonder if the freshers to whom this and other bits of sage advice were directed - at Cambridge in 1660 - paid as little regard to it as their counterparts do today...
(Thanks to Khanam for the link.)
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