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THE FRENCH APOLLO, OR ANTINOUS STATUE.
SIR, I have lately returned from Paris, where the
antiquarian circles are much excited by a great acquisi-
tion made by the Government of a fine bronze statue,
bought in England. It is life size, or larger, and is
called an Apollo. Do you happen to know its history?
-that I could not learn-and where did it come from
originally?

Athenæum Club, Dec. 4.

F. S. A.

JOHN DUNTON, LIFE AND ERRORS.
(Continued from p. 19.)

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Dunton was fond of speculation. His restless mind was always coining new projects. One of the most ingenious productions of his prolific brain was The Athenian Gazette,' afterwards called The Athenian Mercury.' Dunton, Richard Sault, Dr. Norris, and Samuel Wesley were its contributors. It was printed twice a week on a single leaf, and cost a penny. Its The miscalled statue of Apollo, was discovered in France plan was something similar to the modern ⚫ Notes and by some labourers while digging for clay for brick-making, Queries,' but literary and antiquarian subjects were not on July 24, 1823, at the distance of about 800 metres from fashionable then, and the topics discussed were religion, the town of Lillebonne, below and a little beyond the old castle, on the north of the new road to Caudebec, six hun- philosophy, morals, and quaint paradoxes suited to the Hundreds of dred paces from the Roman Theatre. Being found beyond age. Its singularity made it popular. the boundary of the land purchased by the Government letters were sent to Smith's coffee house, where the for excavation; it was, as private property, almost imme-editors met to concoct their plans. Dean Swift wrote diately purchased by the Messrs. Woodburn, of St. Mar- his first ode in its pages. Sir William Temple honoured tin's-lane; by them offered to the Trustees of the British it with frequent contributions. Tom Brown started in Museum, and rejected. The statue remained unnoticed with opposition the 'Lacedemonian Mercury.' Dunton immethem, but since the death of Mr Samuel Woodburn it was diately advertised that he would answer all his rival's by the keener and better directed appreciation of its value, questions with amendments, and publish his life. This secured by the present Government of France, with what bold stroke silenced his opponent. The Athenian Mereffect the query of our correspondent affords indubitable cury eventually swelled to nineteen folio volumes; a proof. The statue of gilded bronze is more than six feet selection of the best papers afterwards appeared under high, but the right arm and hand, and the right leg, are the title of the Athenian Oracle. wanting; the broken fragments were found with the statue, lost his wife, whose death he bitterly lamented, though In 1697 Dunton and on an analysis of the metal, the constituents of the material were found to be 95 parts of copper, to 5 of tin, as the same year he consoled himself by another marriage the proportions. with Sarah Nicholas of St. Albans." "With this lady," remarks his biographer Nichols, "he does not appear to have added much to his comforts or his fortune." Two days after the marriage they separated. His wife went home to her friends, and the forlorn husband went on an expedition to Dublin with a large cargo of books. The particulars of his journey are amusingly told in 'The Dublin Scuffle,' printed in 1699. He apologises for the rambling humour of his digressions by saying, “When I have my pen in my hand, and subject in my head, I look upon myself as mounted on my horse to ride a journey; wherein, although I design to reach such a town by night, yet will I not deny myself the satisfaction of going a mile or two out of the way to gratify my senses with some new and diverting prospect." His books sold well by auction; though he bitterly complains of the conduct of a wily Scotchman, who "took the room over his head by offering to pay double rent." Patrick Campbell, he sarcastically remarks, "pretends extremely to religion, and has got many a penny by the bargain. He will commonly say grace over a choppin of ale, and at the same time be contriving how to overreach you." He hints that he would sell the same book under two titles, and "turn Hodder into Cocker, according as his customer wanted, with as much dexterity as the suttler in King James' camp, who drew ale out of one end of the barrel and beer at the other."

As an Apollo, the statue, though admirable for its merit, is wholly devoid of claim; but, supposing it to be of the period of the Emperor Hadrian, of which there is little doubt of controverting, it may possibly be intended for Antinous, a youth of Bithynia, who was so great a favourite of the Emperor Hadrian, that after his death he was deified, and statues and temples were raised to him as to a god. The subject has obtained considerable elucidation in the third volume of Mr. C. Roach Smith's Collectanea Antiqua, pp. 83, 87, that doubtless F. S. A. will find in the Athenaeum Club Library; if not, the erudite and eminently literary character of its members impose an almost indispensable requirement, the work in question should

in future be found there.

EDITOR.

TOWN ARMORIAL INSIGNIA, Current Notes, p. 90. -
I am apprehensive, that if ever an historical research
were gone into respecting the antiquities of Nottingham
and Colchester, we should never arrive at the reasons
why the arms of both towns should be so similar. The
arms in question were probably borne in very early
times, and both are recorded in the visitations. Those
of Nottingham having the cross vert, and those of Col-
chester, the cross argent. In most cases it would be
difficult to assign any cause why particular bearings
were introduced into arms of remote antiquity; and in
the instance now in question, still more difficult to say
whether the arms of Nottingham and Colchester could
have any common origin.
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The remainder of Dunton's career was clouded by misfortune. In 1700 he published "The Case with regard to his mother-in-law." Money matters seem to have been the cause of their estrangement. He has summed up her character in one sentence, "She would

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slander her own husband to save two-pence." In 1701 appeared another sarcastic effusion, entitled 'The Case is altered, or Dunton's re-marriage.' This was followed in 1705 by his Life. He bitterly exclaims against the conduct of his friends who had deserted him in the hour of distress."6 Except I would put myself in the Gazette, or stand at the Exchange like an Irishman, with my breeches full of petitions, delivering them like doctor's bills to all I see, I shall get nothing; for now my purse is empty, nobody knows me. There's the Rector of Epworth, that got his bread by the Maggot' I published, has quite forgot ine. There is stuttering D'Urfey will scarce own who bid him write the Triennial Mayor. Not a line have I received from my sister T- ever since my misfortunes, not so much as the poor offer of a week's diet." Dunned by his creditors, separated from his wife, and neglected by his summer' friends, his mind seems to have become tinctured with insanity. However, he still bore up against his troubles, and wrote for the press "that he might not starve." He thus cheerfully sums up his own character. "I love travelling, do not love fighting, love Valeria, do not love money, love my friend, do not fear nor hate my enemy, love writing, do not love starving, love fair dealing, had rather be called fool than knave, let people laugh while I win, can be secret if trusted, or woe be to Parson Grub, I am owed more than I owe, and can pay more than that, make my word as good as my bond, will not do a foul thing, can live in a cell till I pay my debts, and bid the world go

whistle."

In 1706 he addressed "A Word of Comfort to his Creditors, or the Living Elegy," in which he promises to satisfy all demands if they will but wait two years. Hope still buoyed him up. In 1707 he wrote Athenian Sport. In 1710 appeared "Athenianism-a strange mixture of sense and folly; it contains some good articles in prose and verse, a few of a licentious turn, and some deeply tinged with insanity." In the latter part of Queen Anne's reign, continues his biographer Nichols, Dunton published A Cat may look at a Queen, or a Satire upon her present Majesty.' He became a flaming patriot, and published his noted pamphlet, Neck or Nothing,' which passed through several editions. On the accession of George I., Duntou continued his patriotic effusions, but was disappointed in the patronage he expected which produced" Mordecai's Memorial, or there's nothing done for him." Soon after, in conjunction with De Foe, he projected a new weekly paper-The Hanover Spy.',

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His second wife died at St. Alban's, 1720-1. In 1723 he published his Dying Groans from the Fleet Prison, or an Appeal to George I.,' with a list of his political pamphlets; amongst which were Queen Robin. The shortest way with the Ring. The Impeachment. Whig Loyalty. The Golden Age. The Medal. Dunton's Ghost. The Hereditary Bastard. Ox and Bull, King Abigail. Bungey. Frank Scamony. Seeing's Believing. High Church Gudgeons. The Devil's Martyrs. Royal Gratitude. King George for ever. Manifesto of King John the Second. The Ideal Kingdom. The Mob War. King William's Legacy Burnet and Wharton. Pulpit Lunatics. The Bull Baiting, or Sacheverell dressed up in fireworks. The Conventicle. Dun

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ton's Recantation. The Passive Rebels. The Pulpit Trumpeter. High Church Martyrology. The Pulpit Bite. The Pretender. God save the King. Protestant Nosegay. George the Second. The Queen by Merit. The Royal Pair. The Unborn Princes. All's at Stake. The titles at full length are most extraordinary. No man understood better how to captivate the vulgar with a 'taking title page.' Besides the works we have enumerated, Dunton was also the author of the Neck Adventure, 1715. Petticoat Government, 1702. The Whipping Post, 1706. Plain French, or a Satire upon the Tackers. The Merciful Assizes. Religio Bibliopola, 1691. Athenian Spy. Serious Thoughts on a Future State. Art of Living Incognito, 1700. Stinking Fish. Essay on Death Bed Charity, 1728. England's Alarum, 1693. The Post Angel, 1701. Female War. The Christian's Gazette. The Preaching Weathercock. Hazard a Deathbed Repentance, 1708. The Night Walker, 1696. It is probable that The Heavenly Pastime, 1685, Pilgrim's Guide, with Sickman's passing bell, and Sighs and Groans of a Dying Man, Hue and Cry after Conscience, and the Dying Pastor's last legacy, 1684, professedly taken from his father's short hand notes were in reality his own composition. The Popish Champion or the history of the Earl of Tyrconnel, 1689. Wonders of Free Grace, or the History of remarkable Penitents executed at Tyburn, &c. 1690. Visions of the Soul before it comes into the Body, 1692. Ladies' Dictionary, 1694, issued from his press, and has been also attributed to him. In the British Museum are most of his numerous publications; and in the Bodleian Library are preserved a number of his MS. letters, together with a Summer Ramble through Ten Kingdoms, by J. Dunton, prepared for the press, but never printed. This heterogeneous character died “in obscurity in 1733, at the age of 74.”

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DIAL MOTTOES.-Macky, in his Notes on London,* says, "I cannot but observe to you, the motto on the sun-dial of London Bridge, that is, "Time and Tide stays for no man." I have remarked several other adapt mottoes on dials, in which the English excel. On Newgate, where malefactors are confined, it is, "VENIO ET FUR;" and in the Temple, where the lawyers reside, one think, close by the great hall there," Pereunt et Imhas, "Begone about your business!" but the best is, I putantur." Possibly your correspondents may have

noticed others?

P. C.

The Temple motto, "Begone!" has an amusing tradition as to the appropriateness of the adoption. The painter of the dial had been several times deferred for the words which were to be below the indications of the hours, and having lastly applied to the party in whom the direction was vested, just as he was about to dine in the Hall, he someand abruptly passing to dinner, the painter took it, as his what petulantly replied, "Begone about your business!" instructions, and painted it accordingly on the dial.

"Journey through England," edit. 1724, vol. i. p. 275.

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NICHOLAS MANN, MASTER OF CHARTER-HOUSE. NICHOLAS MANN, born about 1685, was bred at Eton, and from thence went to King's College. Bishop Hare was his tutor: he became a learned and acute scholar, and was, I believe, a Fellow of King's College many years. He travelled with the Marquis of Blandford, only son to the Duke of Marlborough, who died of the small-pox about 1724; and Mr. Mann had a pension from that family for some years. On the death of Dr. King, by Lord Godolphin and that family's interest he obtained, in or about 1739, the Mastership of the Charter-house. Dr. Middleton would have been more acceptable to that society, as he had much more politeness and sociability; but his losing it, was by his disobliging the clergy. Mr. Mann, though a sensible man, and a very good scholar, had much moroseness and pride in him, which rendered him not agreeable to those of Charter-house, nor did he mix much in social life.

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He wrote, about 1742, a treatise in Latin, De Annis Christi, printed in 8vo. This he afterwards published in English, On the Years of Christ's Ministry;" but the learned did not agree in his notion in general. He then published Critical Notes on some Texts of Scripture, and a second edition, enlarged, about 1746. This work was in general esteemed.

He died in 1749, and they at Charter-house were not sorry for his loss. He left his fortune, about 10,000l., to his nephew, Mr. Jackson, a brewer; and of the fine library he possessed at his death, he gave to Eton College all such books as they had not, with all such books as had his manuscript notes, which were many. He had filled Dr. Waterland's book, "On the Importance of the Trinity," with manuscript notes, tending to confute the Doctor, all the way, and treating him very sharply. Charles Davis and I were employed, at Christmas 1749, in dividing the library. I was employed by Eton College, he by Mr. Jackson; and Dr. John Burton came up from Eton College, to meet the executor on that account. Dr. Burton brought up the Catalogue of Eton College Library, and it was done very amicably.-Notes by a Bookseller, 1764, MS.

JAMES THE SEVenth's DescendANTS.-Your correspondent, Current Notes, p. 92, errs in supposing that any of the descendants of James the Second of England and Seventh of Scotland, now exist. Of his numerous children but four lived to maturity:

1. MARY, the wife of William the Third, who died without issue.

2. ANNE, who became Queen of England, and whose

children all died in their infancy.

3. LOUISA, who died unmarried, and-

4. JAMES, Commonly called the OLD PRETENDER, who left two sons; Charles Edward, the Young Pretender, and Henry, Cardinal York, both of whom died without issue. On the death of the Cardinal, in 1807, the whole issue of James the Second became extinct.

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BALLAD LORE. CORNWALL.

ARSCOTT OF TETCOTT.

Now first printed.

ARSCOTT OF TETCOTT, the venerable name of an ancestor of Sir William Molesworth, the present M.P. for Southwark; and one of the last of the western squires who kept open house and open hand. Many a legend and record of his times and deeds a century since, still float unembodied around the Oaks of old Tetcott, on the Tamar side. There, are still held in remembrance, The dogs that knew the accent of his voice, From the grim foxhound to my lady's choice; Oft o'er those fields, beneath his stately form, Rush'd the bold steed with footsteps like the storm; Foal of a hundred sires! his glancing eye, Shared in his master's pride and flash'd with victory. Morwenstow, Nov. 22. R. S. HAWKER.

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On the ninth of November, in the year Fifty-Two,
Three jolly foxhunters, all sons of true blue,
They rode from Pencarrow, not fearing a wet coat,'
To take their diversion with Arscott of Tetcott.
He went to his kennel, and took them within;
'On Monday,' said Arscott, our joys shall begin ;
Both horses and hounds, how they pant to be gone,
How they'll follow o' foot, not forgetting Black John."
When Monday was come, right early at morn,
John Arscott arose, and he took down his horn;
He gave it a flourish so loud in the hall,
Each heard the glad summons, and came at the call.

They heard it with pleasure, but Webbt was first dress'd,
Resolving to give a cold pig to the rest;
Bold Bob and the Briton, they hasten'd down stairs,
'Twas generally supposed they neglected their pray'rs.
But Webb was impatient that time should be lost,
At breakfast they scrambled for butter and toast,
So old Cheyney was ordered to bring to the door,
Both horses and hounds, and away to the moor.
'On Monday,' said Arscott, as he mounted his nag,
'I look to old Blackcap, for he'll hit the drag!'
The drag it was hit, they said it was old,
For a drag in the morning could not be so cold.
They prick'd it along, to Becket and Thorn,
And there the old dogs they set out, I'll be sworn,
'Twas Ringwood and Rally, with capital scent,
Bold Princess and Madcap, Good God! how they went!

lived with the hounds, and ran with the hounds, and rare Black John, the last of the household jesters. He

was the run when Jack was not in at the death. It was his office to amuse Mr. Arscott's guests by many a practical joke; among them, the swallowing of living mice and sparrow-mumbling had frequent place. There they go,' shouted John, when the fox was found and the dogs went off in full cry, 'There they go, like our Madam at home!' + A neighbouring squire, of Bennett's, in Whitstone. One of the Tickells.

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'How far did they make it?-How far went they on?'
'How far did they make it?' said Simon the son ;*
'O'er the moors,' said Joe Goodman, Hark to Bacchus,
the word!'

'Hark to Vulcan,' roar'd Arscott, 'that's it, by the Lord!'
'Hark to Princess,' said Arscott, 'there's a fresh tally ho!'
The dogs they soon caught it, and how they did go!
'Twas Princess, and Madcap, and Ringwood, and Rally,
They charm'd ev'ry hill, and they echoed each valley.
From Becket through Thorn, they went on their way,
To Swannacott Wood, without break or delay;
And when they came there they then sounded again,
'What music it is,' said the glad Whitstone men.

In haste came up Arscott, 'O! where are they gone?'
'They're off to the cliffs, then,' said Simon the son.
Through Wike and through Poundstok, St. Genys, they
went,

And when Reynard came there, he gave up by consent.

So when Reynard was dead we broke up the field,
With joy in our hearts we had made him to yield,
And when we came home we toasted the health,
Of a man who ne'er varied for places or wealth.

When supper was ended, we spent all the night
In gay flowing bumpers, and social delight;
With mirth and good humour did cheerfully sing,
A health to John Arscott, and God save the King!

THE THREE BLACK PUDDINGS.

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JUNIUS.-I verily believe you are close upon the scent of Junius,' and expect the writer will be soon unkennelled.

I well remember, the late head-master of one of the colleges in Oxford, who had been private tutor to the then Lord Temple, and an intimate friend of his father, the first Marquis of Buckingham, was known to declare, that if ever the author of Junius was discovered, it STRADA. would be from the archives of Stowe.

Mortimer, the PAINTER.-In my copy of Bryan's Dictionary of Painters and Engravers, that belonged to the late Mr. William Esdaile, the banker and eminent collector, and full of his manuscript remarks ; under the article Mortimer,' occurs the following notice, that seems worth transcribing —

Mortimer's convivial talents were hardly to be paralleled. He had such an aversion to large companies that he used to say, if he invited the twelve apostles to supper, he would certainly take two evenings to receive them, six being a sufficient number, be the society ever so good. J. P. A.

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Mortimer's evening revelry was mostly at the Constitution,' on the east side of Bedford-street, Covent His associates were Garden, still a house of resort. Frank Hayman, Richard Wilson, and other painters and players, where their parties were scarcely ever so few as six. No matter the frolic, however preposIf some luckless wight among the disciples of DODD, the comedian and book-collector, was as dis- terous, Mortimer was sure to be the foremost in carrying tinguished a fop, and as eminently epicurean as any St. Luke, or their families required aid, Mortimer was brother of the sock. One object of his particular estion paper, and then, with much drollery and fun, as mation was a black pudding, as then made by old Birch the first to commence a subscription, or to make sketches for sale to who would give most, Birch, the auctioneer put them of Cornhill, celebrated in ballad lore, as pastrycook!" To his well-known shop, of many sweets, were competent to join and purchase if they pleased. Dodd, when not wanted at the theatre, would often by advanced biddings, to which all present in the room resort in the evening, and so timed his appearance, that The proceeds were devoted to the aid required. Mortinot unfrequently he entered the shop as the boy pre-mer died at a premature age, of fever at his house in sented himself with the puddings. On one occasion, the prospective enjoyment induced a more than usual vivacity of his familiar civility with the girl who served behind the counter, when Birch made his appearance on the stairs in a loose dressing-gown. what honest act art thou here vagrant," said Birch, for." "Good! my master," rejoined Dodd, in his wonted stage manner, "I wait one of thy excellent black puddings." "Nay, dissolute, you whisper my maid; Sarah, girl, heed him not; his is no kith for thee. However, to bind his favour, see that he pays for Excellent, my master," resumed one, and takes two." Dodd, in a manner as simple as Master Slender, "my favour is bound; and prithee, see me do thy bidding. Sarah, girl, heed me not; I pay for one, and put it in this pocket; but take two, and put them in the other pocket." Vagrant and cheat, not so," said Birch, who in an instant saw that Dodd's mode of calculation was sharper than his own; and deaf to remonstrance, was as momentarily vanished with the three black puddings.

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"What ho!

Mr. Arscott's pet name for his old whipper-in.

Norfolk-street, Strand, Feb, 4, 1779, whence he was soon after exhumed and deposited near the altar in buried at Great Missenden, Bucks; but his body was High Wycombe Church, in which his great picture of St. Paul preaching to the Britons had been placed by one of his particular friends, some time before the painter's decease.

Dr. Mortimer, the respected head master of the City of London school, is his descendant, and as such venerates the arts, as he a few months since stated to

the writer.

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your any

EDITOR.

readers explain the GLASSMAKING.-Can action of the gases oxygen and carbonic acid, in the fusion of glass?-CHEMICUS.

Carbonic acid gas is driven off by heat, and comes out of the pot's mouth, as well as the water taken up by the carbonate of potash, during the fusion of flint glass. Oxygen gas is also in the same manner driven off, but a proportion of the latter combines with the glass, and if in excess, gives a tint of purple, or light pink hue, technically called foxy. A GLASSMAKER. Falcon Foundry, Dec. 13.

ON EAGLE'S WING,-Current Notes, p. 76, Pope in one of his usually caustic lines, has

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'On eagle's wing immortal Scandal flies.' A fable or story I remember to have heard as a boy, but which I never have seen in print, suggests itself to me as a probable germ from which the idea of the wren perched on eagle's wing' may be taken. It is to the effect, that once upon a time,' the birds being in a state of anarchy for want of a king, determined to elect him who could soar the highest. The eagle, upon this, mounted aloft, and had attained his utmost elevation, apparently far above that of any other competitor, when a wren, who had concealed himself under his wing in anticipation of the result, hopped out, and, rising a little higher than the eagle, exclaimed, I'm king of the birds." The Latin and French names for this bird, regulus and roitelet, may possibly owe their source to some similar fable, though the tuft of the golden-crested wren may also have contributed to them.

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C. S.

The following lines will also probably recur to our correspondent::

Why does the eagle hold his flight,
To meet the sun's meridian height,
With such exulting glee?

'Tis not, as poets have averr'd,
Because he is the regal bird;

It is because-he's free!

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PILLAR SAINTS OF THE FIFTH CENTURY.-Can any of your correspondents kindly direct me as to where may be found confirmation of what Cedrenus writes concerning the pillar saints of the fifth century, on the northern shores of the Sea of Marmora, and as to how and by whom were these pillars constructed, and how were they sustained upon them?

Butler, in his so-called Lives of the Saints, leaves us to consider their history to be little more than a popish legend. I would also ask, What was the end of H. M. Peter the Hermit, of Crusade celebrity?

DALLEUS, Current Notes, p, 40.-No translation.

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SHAKESPEARE'S PUCK, OR ROBIN GOODFELlow. THE following ballad, that Bishop Percy supposed to have been originally intended for some masque, was doubtless popular in the days of Dick Tarlton, who died in September, 1588, and was, without doubt, the source whence Shakespeare derived many of the points he has embodied in the character of Puck, more particularly of the traces which are shown, in the third act of his Midsummer Night's Dream." An anonymous tract, possibly by Henry Chettle, entitled "Tarlton's Newes out of Purgatorie," published by an old companion of his, Robin Goodfellow, entered on the Stationers' books, June 26, 1590, and printed without date in that year, as in the same year appeared "The Cobbler of Canterburic," an answer, or rather as the titlepage asserts, an invective against Tarlton's 'Newes out of Purgatorie.' After the "Cobbler's Epistle to the Gentleman Readers," follows Robin Goodfellow's epistle, subscribed "Yours in choller!" This is an invective on the crank feats of the cobbler in his abuse of Robin's associate, Dick Tarleton; "A cobler become a corrector! ho, ho, ho it was not so when Robin Goodfellow was a ruffler, and helpt the country wenches to grinde their mault." Here, it will be observed, occurs the whimsical laughing jocund ho, ho, ho, that terminates every last line, in each verse of the ballad.

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