An old valetudinarian in the city, who knew every spa in Europe, wanted to try that of Priory Leas and had consulted him about it.

Where be those puling fears of death, just now expressed or affected?Passed like a cloudabsorbed in the purging sunlight of clear poetryclean washed away by a wave of genuine Helicon, your only Spa for these hypochondriesAnd now another cup of the generous!

It has been my endeavour in this volume to provide an illustrated gossiping Guide to the Spas of the Pyrenees.

Visitor at the Spa with her husband.

He gaped and gasped for breathhe groaned and writhed in tormentand, borne out in the arms of Crowns and his men, the spirit-stirring Dandy was removed to bed, whence he arose to return, without delay, to London by the shortest possible road, even with the fear of another fieri facias before his eyes, to descant on vinous acidities, Gin Lakes, and the liver-consuming Spa of Vo.

Their clothing, names and nations were changed perpetually; a Jew broker at Cologne would figure some days after at Aix-la-Chapelle or Spa as a German baron, or a Dutch merchant, keeping open table, and playing a high game; and the next week he might be met with in a forest at the head of his troop.

From the French capital the party returned through Spa to England.