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This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1719. Excerpt:... any Vehicle of French Fig or Prune to qualify the Bitter, has-occasion'd those large Swellings alate in the Necks of the Scaramouches. THE Quibbling Knaves are for chewing it, not considering that by this slow way of talcing the Pill, it insinuates many of its pungent Particles into the adjacent Glands, and meeting with Heterogeneous parts, Ferments. I would many times, if it had been possible, given any Price to have secur'd my Midriff from bursting, to see a Scaramouch Mount, since the new Injunction of the Great President: The waggle of his Body before hfc comes to that dreadful Acknowledgment of ©ur Great President's Title, is monstrously Entertaining, having a near Resemblance to the French Prophets Agitations. BUT when the Name and Style is rehears'd, grateful, ever grateful to all True Britons; the Eyes ro«-l, a thoufand Sighs setch'd up, Toung Jacob at Bottom; strange Contradictions between Tongue and Heart; the; Spleen oppress'd to the last Degree; and what really detracts from the graceful manner of playing their Puppets, they appear Crop-sick, which is not very fashionable upon a Stage. FA 1TH I pity the poor Fellows, having been so long us'd to the Dissyllable of Jacob, they cannot readily mouthe the Monosyllable of George: Tgad if I was one of the Lower Form of Scaramouches, I'd quit the Old Bites, and come over entirely to the Great President's Interest, and make my Foi tunes, as they have done. A Thoufand Pounds a Year, with the dry Fronounciation of Ncii, &c.. is a pretty Importance portance, since we cannot have our Beads, our. Charms, our Crosses, and Agnus Deis. A Grenadier is always a Soldier of Fortune, wha a Plague have you Scaramouches oiSix Foot high to mind but your Interest? You must consider your selves as Younger Bro...