old Thing fo fuccessfully with a new Name, that no Body will imagine it to be the fame. A particular Inftance of this is Bumbazeen. What a lucky Thought! I envy the Projector, and would give the World to be Mafter of the Invention of that fingle Word; but the happy Mercer was a Rogue at the Bottom, and a Piece of a Poet I dare fay; for he has fhewed himfelf a perfect Mafter of the Art of Borrowing, vulgarly called Stealing; he has not taken Words, Lines, and Sentences, as our modern Poets do, but by a happy Inverfion and Mutation of Syllables, he makes Words of a quite different Sound and Application. Give me leave to fancy myself a Mercer in a deep Soliloquy, and I will let you see more of the Matter.

Poor Linfy Woolfy! what a Dog of a Tradefman was thy Godfather; he was, no doubt, fome sneaking Small beer Rafcal, or he could never have entertained fo mean an Idea; had he lived generously, as other Mercers do, drank his Bottle, kept his Country House, a Girl and a Gelding at t'other End of the Town, he never would have thought of the Name Linfy Woolfy; he would furely have contrived fome pretty foft fmooth gliding Word, that should have taken the Ear at once, fomething that should bamboozle People out of their Senfes : Bamboozle ; hum! a good Hint, there's fomething of a Chime in the Word: It has been turned already from the Word Bombaft; but it will bear another Turn; let me fee

Bam-bum-boo-bo-bas-te-tle-tin-fin-zinzeen; O no, Zeen is much fofter; I have it, I have it, Bumbazeen. Thus, gentle Reader, after this, or the like manner, was the Word Bumbazeen brought to Light; what Succefs it has met with all the Word knows ; fo let us take our Leaves of the Mercers, the Taylors, the Milliners, and all the Mechanick

Mechanick Tribe; let 'em raife their Prices, and be dd, we know how to be even with 'em, as I: faid before: Come gentle, fweet and courteous Readers, you fhall go along with me to Dr. St's, the Darling, the Delight and Wonder of Mankind; he fhall make it as plain as the Nose on a Man's Face, that Gulliver was no Romancer; that there is fuch a Place as Lilliput, and fuch People as the Lilliputians, having lately receiv'd a Present from Old Capt. Gulliver of a Lilliputian Sow, who has juft farrow'd nine beautiful Pigs, and alfo a Boar of the fame Specie, the moft lovely that ever Eyes beheld; the Boar and Sow are much of a Size, each being very near as big as a Dormouse; the Pigs are lefs than Imagination can conceive, about the Bignefs of a Ladybird: But Hogarth the Engraver is making a Print after them, which will give a jufter Idea of them than I can. Thefe Animals are not like. our nafty Swine, but certainly the neatest Creatures in Life; they fmell more fragrant than Musk itself, their Eyes are like Diamonds, their Briftles you wou'd fwear were Silver: Nay, when they are afleep, and don't move, you take 'em for little Silver Toys of the moft curious Workmanship; they make no Noife in their Sleep; but when they are awake, and at Play, they call one another in the most mufical Tone I ever heard, far beyond any thing of Senefino, Cuzzoni or Fauftina. The Doctor is infinitely fond of 'em, as well he may ; and fuch Crowds of People daily prefs to fee 'em, that it is perfectly inconvenient, and I fear will make him leave the Town fooner than he intended, or defir'd. They are the gentleft, tamest Creatures breathing, and very docible. The Boar, far different from our English Boars, is exceffively fond of his Mate, and equally of his Young. The Doctor keeps 'em in a

little Silver Box grated at Top; for, as I faid before, they are prodigiously clean; they never dung but once a Week, and then they give Notice. In fhort, they are the cleaneft, fweeteft, prettieft Crea-.. tures, I ever faw; and fhould they breed plentifully, I doubt not to fee 'em in every Family of Condition: For, Ladies will be glad to have fo great a Novelty at any Price. Another Curiofity is, an exact Figure of a Lilliputian Beauty, done by a great Artift of the Country after the Life. As for bringing over any of the People, 'tis impoffible; our Climate is too grofs, they wou'd be immediately choak'd up: This Figure, however, will give us a clearer Idea of this People, than we could hitherto frame. In fhort, they are the greatest Curiofity England ever boafted of, or perhaps may; and should the Doctor take 'em away fuddenly, 'twill be very uncivil indeed. I could rehearfe their many other Virtues, as alfo the other Curiofities referv'd by the Captain for his own Ufe; for Example, a Brobdingnag-Flea, as big as aLincolnshire-Ox,and innumerable otherRarities. I had likewise intended to have told who would be in, and who out, when we fhould have a New Parliament; but muft defer thefe, and all other Particulars; which, as I faid in my Title, could not be inferted: But, to oblige the World, in a fmall Time, I will publish an Appendix to this Book, in two Folio Treatifes, which fhall compleat the whole Defign, and take in all and every Particular worthy of Notice.

POSTSCRIPT.

Whereas the Wits of the Town are mightily taken with the Lilliputian Measure, and we hear have fhrunk their Verses to two Syllables in a Line; these are to give Notice, that the Author is preparing for the Prefs an ODE, which fhall contain but a Syllable and a half in a Line.

AN

To the Memory of

SIGNOR FI DO,

an Italian of good Extraction;
who came into England,

not to bite us, like moft of his Countrymen,
but to gain an honest Livelihood :
He hunted not after Fame,
yet acquir'd it:

Regardless of the Praise of his Friends,
but moft fenfible of their Love:
Tho' he liv'd amongst the Great,
he neither learn'd nor flatter'd any Vice:
He was no Bigot,

tho' he doubted of none of the Thirty-nine Articles: and if to follow Nature,

and to refpect the Laws of Society,
be Philofophy,

he was a perfect Philofopher,
a faithful Friend,

an agreeable Campanion,
a loving Hufband,

diftinguifh'd by a numerous Offspring,
all which he liv'd to fee take good Courses:
In his old Age he retir'd
to the House of a Clergyman in the Country,
where he finish'd his earthly Race,

and died anHonour and an Example to the wholeSpecies.

Reader,

This Stone is guiltless of Flattery;

for he to whom it is infcrib'd
was not a Man,
but a

GREYHOUND.

Sa

NOTES

AND

MEMORANDUMS

Of the SIX DAYS, preceeding the Death of a

late Right Reverend

Containing many remarkable Paffages, with an INSCRIPTION degfin'd for his Monument.

Non moreris Gte voles, fed vivus ad Aftra,
Etheriis vectus qualis Enochus equis.

Printed in 1715.

Dr. BENTLEY,

THURSDAY March 10. 1714.

Quicquid erit Vita, fcribam, Color.

HOR.

OSE at Five: Slip'd on my Morning Gown:

R Purified my Outfide. Meditated on the

Vanity of Washings, and the Superfluity of Habits. Walk'd about my Room half an Hour precisely. Exercise useful; throws off corrupt Humours; much need of it. Look out the Window; hemm'd three Times; much easier than before. Three Ejaculations for that. Caft my Eyes about. I am pofitive I see a Romish Priest: Omen of an evil Import,