[16] The death of Molly Mogg was thus announced in the _Gentleman’s Magazine_: “Mrs. Mary Mogg, at Oakingham: she was the person on whom Gay wrote the song of ‘Molly Mogg.’” This song was first printed in _Mist’s Weekly Journal_ of August 27, 1726, with a note stating that “it was writ by two or three men of wit (who have diverted the public both in prose and verse), upon the occasion of their lying at a certain inn at Ockingham, where the daughter of the house was remarkably pretty, and whose name is Molly Mogg.” These “men of wit” were supposed to have been Pope, Swift, and Gay, and it was believed that they had together concocted the song, but the weight of evidence is in favour of Gay’s sole authorship. There is, however, enough doubt to warrant one in holding to the pleasant tradition that the three poets, over their cups at the Rose Inn, made the song which began (original version):-- “Says my Uncle, I pray you discover What has been the cause of your woes, That you pine and you whine like a lover? I’ve seen Molly Mog of the Rose. Oh, Nephew! your grief is but folly, In town you may find better prog; Half a crown there will get you a Molly, A Molly much better than Mog. … The school boys delight in a play-day, The schoolmaster’s joy is to flog; The milk-maid’s delight is in May day, But mine is in sweet Molly Mog.” [17] Finch’s Grotto Garden stood on the site now occupied by the headquarters of the Metropolitan Fire Brigade. It was opened--six years before John Thomas Smith was born--on the strength of a spring in the grounds which a Dr. Townshend was willing to declare medicinal. Concerts and fireworks were given with fair success, and here “Tommy” Lowe accepted engagements after his failure in the management of Marylebone Gardens. The tavern was burnt down in May 1795, and was replaced by another called the “Goldsmith’s Arms,” afterwards styled the “Old Grotto New Reviv’d.” This tavern bore the inscription-- “Here Herbs did grow And flowers sweet, But now ’tis call’d Saint George’s Street.” All that is known about Finch’s Grotto is told by Mr. Warwick Wroth in his admirable _London Pleasure Gardens of the Eighteenth Century_. [18] This famous aid to the teething of children was invented about the year 1717, when there appeared a _Philosophical Essay upon the Celebrated Anodyne Necklace_, dedicated to Dr. Paul Chamberlen (who died in this year), and the Royal Society. This tract, quoted by Mr. J. Eliot Hodgkin in _Notes and Queries_ of Feb. 16, 1884, argues the advantages of the necklace as follows:--