upon fine, true virgin parchment. Omnes spiritus laudet Dominus Mosem habe. Prophetas exerget Deus, dissipari inter inimicos. But if for a garden, or orchard, it must be placed at the four corners thereof; and if to keep one from being robbed on the road, to have it always about him, and fear God."

"The head. The head being short and round denotes forgetfulness and folly. The head long in fashion to be prudent and wary; if in the fore-part of the head hollowness, to be hasty. The head big shews a dull person, and is apply'd to the ass. The head little, to be foolish, and apply'd to the dog. The head mean of bigness argues a good wit naturally. The head being sharp, to be immodest, a boaster, of whom there are too many."

191. A NUPTIAL DIALOGUE, BETWEEN A YOUNG
LIBERTINE AND AN OLD CANTING RICH WIDOW,
WHOM HE HAD MARRY'D FOR HER MONEY.
Dublin, 1735.

12mo.

192. A PARTICULAR ACCOUNT OF THE GREAT MOB AT GLASGOW, that happened on Tuesday, 9th of Feb. 1779, with an account of the magistrates and trades activity in assisting to suppress the same. 8vo. 1779.

193. THE MOST SURPRISING ADVENTURES AND WONDERFUL INTRIGUES OF DAVID HUNTLY, THE FAMOUS ENGLISH FORTUNE-HUNTER, who first made love to his master's daughter, and from having gained an interest in her favour he began to think himself entitled to a much better match, and how he made his addresses to several ladies of fortune. 8vo. n.d.

This tract relates "how he met with many grievous disappointments, till he fell in with Madam Prude, a brisk young widow, by whom he thought he would immediately raise his fortune, but was at last miserably disappointed and affronted and having spent his time till he is grown gray with age, he is now contenting himself by writing a history of the disagreements and misfortunes of married people, from his observations in a journey from London to the Land's End in a stage-coach, which you have here a full and particular account of; together with the conduct of two new married gentlemen and their ladies in a voyage at sea, when the ship was cast upon a rock beyond all hopes of recovery, with their different behaviour to each other after their safe arrival upon shore."

194. AN ORATION ON THE VIRTUES OF THE OLD WOMEN AND THE PRIDE OF THE YOUNG, with a direction for young men what sort of women to take, and for women what sort of men to marry. 12mo. Glasgow, 1788.

Said to be "dictated by Janet Clinker, and written by Humphrey Clinker, the clashing wives clerk." In the Scottish dialect, p. 8. Another edition is entitled, "The folly of wittless women displayed, or the history of the Haveral Wives."

195. THE HISTORY AND LIVES OF ALL THE MOST NOTORIOUS PIRATES AND THEIR CREWS. 8vo. Glasgow, 1788.

One of the most popular chap-books of the last

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century, "from Captain Avery, who first settled at Madagascar, to Captain John Gow, and James Williams, his lieutenant, &c., who were hanged at Execution Dock, June 11th, 1735, for piracy and murder, and afterwards hanged in chains between Blackwall and Deptford, and in this edition continued down to the year 1735.”

196. THE LAIDLey Worm of Spindleston Heugh, a song above five-hundred years old, made by the old mountain-bard, Duncan Frasier, living on Cheviot, A.D. 1270. Printed from an ancient manuscript. 12mo., 1785.

It is unnecessary to say that this ballad is a modern fiction; but it is not generally known that it is founded on an old tradition which is still current in the north of England.

197. THE TRUE TRIAL OF Understanding, or Wit NEWLY REVIV'D, being a book of riddles, adorned with a variety of pictures. By S. M.

New riddles make both wit and mirth,

The price a penny, yet not half the worth. 12mo.

Printed and sold in London, n.d.

A collection of metrical riddles. The answer to the following one is, "Three fidlers in Thames-street, who played up a bridegroom in the morning, who gave them nothing to drink."

Three men near the flowing Thames,

Much pains and labour they did take:
They both did scratch and claw their wems
Until their very hearts did ache.

It is as true as e'er was told;

Therefore this riddle now unfold.

198. THE WORLD TURNED UPSIDE-DOWN, OR THE FOLLY OF MAN, exemplified in twelve comical relations upon uncommon subjects. Illustrated with twelve curious cuts, truly adapted to each story. 12mo. Printed and sold in London, n.d. In verse. 1. The world turned upside down. 2. The ox turned farmer. 3. The old soldier turned nurse. 4. The reward of roguery, or the roasted cook. 5. The duel of the palfries. 6. The mad squire. 7. The ox turned butcher. 8. Gallantry à-la-mode, or the lovers catched by the cock. 9. The honest ass and the miller. 10. The horse turned groom. The water wonder. 12. Sun, moon, stars, and earth transposed.

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199. VOYAGES AND TRAVELS, being the life and adventures of Robinson Crusoe of York, mariner; who lived eight and twenty years all alone in an uninhabited island on the coast of America, having been cast on shore by shipwrack, wherein all the men perished but himselfe. With an account how he was at last as strangely delivred by Pirates. Written by himselfe. 8vo, n. d.

In the form of a penny history, four leaves, with two cuts. This was probably the earliest edition of Robinson Crusoe in that shape, as it is evidently nearly as old as the period in which De Foe's celebrated narrative appeared.

200. THE LIFE AND GLORIOUS ACTIONS OF THE HONOURABLE SIR CLOUDESLY SHOVEL, Kt., Admiral of the Confederate Fleet in the Mediterranean Sea, who was unfortunately drowned upon the 22nd of October, 1707, through his ship, the

Association, splitting on the rocks near Scilly, as
in her Passage from the Streights for England.
Furthermore you
have here contained all his noble
Expeditions, his famous sea-fights, and his brave
exploits performed in several parts of the world.
8vo. London, Printed by J. R., near Fleet-street,
c. 1708.

Four leaves, with a portrait.

201. THE GOLDEN CABINET, OR COMPLEAT FORTUNETELLER, wherein the meanest capacities are taught to understand their good or bad fortunes, not only in the Wheel of Fortune, but also by those sublime arts and mysteries of Palmestry and Physiognomy, 12mo., n. d.

"On Valentine's day. Take two bay-leaves, sprinkle them with rose-water, the evening of the day lay them across your pillow. When you go to bed, putting on a clean shift turned wrong side outwards, and laying down, say these words softly to yourself,

"Good Valentine, be kind to me,

In dreams let me my true love see.

So go to sleep as fast as you can, and you will see in your dream the party you are to wed come to your bed-side, and offer you all the modest kindness imaginable." (p. 22.)

"On St Agnes day. Take a sprig of rosemary, and another of thyme; sprinkle them thrice, and in the evening of this day put one in each shoe. Place the shoes on each side of the bed, and then go to bed, saying,―

"St. Agnes, that's to lovers kind,

Come ease the trouble of my mind.