Citation - Maryland Gazette-Annapolis (Green): 1752.12.28

MG-A(G.752.065
28 Dec 1752:11,12 (399)
From a not very late English paper.  Of Health, Temperance,
and Sobriety. . . [14 lines describing behavioral excesses]
A learned foreigner observ'd humourously to an Englishman,
vita vestra est instar comediae: your life is like a comedy,
where the whole business and plot is eating: breakfast is
the prologue, dinner the interlude, and supper the epilogue:
you reverse this rule of Cato,---eat to live, not live to
eat. . . [101 lines]