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. • I am, SIR, &c. RALPH CROTCHET.' C. BSENCE of lovers, death in love Abstinence, the benefits of it Accounts, their great usefulness N° 241 241 195 174 Acosta, his answer to Limborch, touching the multi- Action, a threefold division of our actions No right judgment to be made of them Advertisement from Mr. Sly the haberdasher About the lottery ticket Ambition, by what to be measured Many times as hurtful to the princes who are led 213 174 237 237 187 191 188 Annihilation, by whom desired 200 219, 224 219 210 Apothecary, his employment The most abject of wishes Apes, what women so called, and described Apollo's temple on the top of Leucate, by whom fre- quented, and for what purpose Appetites, sooner moved than the passions. 208 Argument, rules for the management of one 197 Argumentum Basilinum, what 239 Socrates his way of arguing 239 In what manner managed by states and commu- 239 Argus, his qualifications and employments under Juno 250 Aristotle, the inventor of syllogism BAWDY-HOUSES frequented by wise men, not out of 190 VOL. III Beggars, Sir Andrew Freeport's opinion of them - Butt: the adventure of a Butt on the water C 191 CAPRICE often acts in the place of reason Charles the Great, his behaviour to his secretary, who - Children, the unnaturalness in mothers of making Chinese, the punishment among them for parricide Club. The She Romp Club Methods observed by that club 198 181 246 189 186, 213 217✓ 217 Club-law, a convincing argument Constancy in sufferings, the excellency of it 239 197 196 180 237 Cordeliers, their story of St. Francis their founder Cornaro, Lewis, a remarkable instance of the bene- fit of temperance Coverley, Sir Roger de, a dispute between him and 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 DEBAUCHEE, his pleasure is that of a destroyer Devotion. A man is distinguished from brutes by devotion more than by reason The errors into which it often leads us D Discretion, an under agent of Providence Distinction, the desire of it implanted in our natures, and why Doctor in Moorfields, his contrivance Dorigny, Monsieur, his piece of the transfiguration, Drinking, a rule prescribed for it No. 225 225 224 193 226 195 Dutch, their saying of a man that happens to break 174 E EDUCATION, the benefits of a good one, and necessity The first thing to be taken care of in education 224 ture and marriage with that emperor's daughter 181 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 Eugenius appropriates a tenth part of his estate to St. Evremond, his endeavours to palliate the Roman superstitions Exercise the most effectual physic Expences, oftener proportioned to our expectations 201 219 177 - 239 Face, a good one a letter of recommendation 191 250 183 183 221 Fame divided into three different species Fashion. 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