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distinction made between the spreading of a victory, a march, or an encampment, a Dutch, a Portugal, or a Spanish-mail. Nor must I omit under this head those excessive alarms with which several boisterous rustics infest our streets in turnip-season; and which are more inexcusable, because these are wares which are in no danger of cooling upon their hands.

There are others who affect a very slow time,

and are in my opinion much more tuneable than the former. The cooper in particular swells his last note in an hollow voice, that is not without its harmony; nor can I forbear being inspired with a most agreeable melancholy, when I hear that sad and solemn air with which the public are very often asked, if they have any chairs to mend? Your own memory may suggest to you many other lamentable ditties of the same nature, in which the music is wonderfully languishing and melodious.

I am always pleased with that particular time of the year which is proper for the pickling of dill and cucumbers; but, alas! this cry, like the song of the nightingale, is not heard above two months. It would therefore be worth while to consider, whether the same air might not in some cases be adapted to other words.

It might likewise deserve our most serious consideration, how far, in a well regulated city, those humourists are to be tolerated, who, not contented with the traditional cries of their forefathers, have invented particular songs and tunes of their own: such as was not many years since, the pastry-man, commonly known by the name of the Colly-MollyPuff*; and such as is at this day the vender of powder and wash-balls, who, if I am rightly inforined, goes under the name of Powder-Watt.

I must not here omit one particular absurdity which runs through this whole vociferous generation, and which renders their cries very often not only

There is a print of this man in the Set of London Cries, M. Lan, ron, del. P. Tempest, exc. as we learn from Grainger's Biographical History of England.

incommodious, but altogether useless to the public. I mean, that idle accomplishment which they all of them aim at, of crying so as not to be understood. Whether or no they have learned this from several of our affected singers, I will not take upon me to say; but most certain it is, that people know the wares they deal in rather by their tunes than by their words; insomuch that I have sometimes seen a country boy run out to buy apples of a bellowsmender, and ginger-bread from a grinder of knives and scissars. Nay, so strangely infatuated are some very eminent artists of this particular grace in a cry, that none but their acquaintance are able to guess at their profession; for who else can know, that "work if I had it," should be the signification of a corn-cutter.

Forasmuch therefore as persons of this rank are seldom men of genius or capacity, I think it would be very proper that some man of good sense and sound judgment should preside over these public cries, who should permit none to lift up their voices in our streets, that have not tunable throats, and are not only able to overcome the noise of the crowd, and the rattling of coaches, but also to vend their respective merchandises in apt phrases, and in the most distinct and agreeable sounds. I do therefore humbly recommend myself as a person rightly qualified for this post; and if I meet with fitting encouragement, shall communicate some other projects which I have by me, that may no less conduce to the emolument of the public.

ADDISON.

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Admiration, one of the most pleasing passions
Adversity, no evil in itself

Advertisement from Mr. Sly the haberdasher

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Argumentum Basilinum, what

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Chinese, the punishment among them for parricide
Christian religion, the clear proof of its articles, and
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Cornaro, Lewis, a remarkable instance of the bene-

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Sir Andrew Freeport

Cries of London require some regulation

Cunning, the accomplishment of whom

Curiosity, one of the strongest and most lasting of our

Cynæas, Pyrrhus's chief minister, his handsome re-

proof to that prince

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Enthusiasm, the misery of it

Epictetus, his allusion on human life

Epitaph of a charitable man

Erasmus insulted by a parcel of Trojans

Estates generally purchased by the slower part of
mankind

Eugenius appropriates a tenth part of his estate to
charitable uses

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