It is remarkable and worthy your observation to behold and hear the strange sights and confused noise in the Fair. Here a Knave in a fool's coat with a trumpet sounding, or on a drum beating, invites you and would fain persuade you to see his puppets. There a Rogue like a wild woodman, or in an Antic-shape like an Incubus, desires your company to view his motion; on the other side Hocus Pocus with three yards of tape or ribbon in's hand, shewing his art of Legerdemain to the admiration and astonishment of a company of cockloaches.[18] Amongst these you shall see a gray goose-cap, as wise as the rest, with a "what do ye lack" in his mouth, stand in his booth shaking a rattle or scraping on a fiddle, with which children are so taken that they presently cry out for these fopperies. And all these together make such a distracted noise that you would think Babel were not comparable to it. Here there are also your gamesters in action: some turning of a whimsey, others throwing for Pewter, who can quickly dissolve a round shilling into a three halfpenny saucer. Long lane at this time looks very fair and puts out her best clothes with the wrong side outward, so turned for their better turning off. And Cloth Fair is now in great request; well fare the ale-houses there. Yet better may a man fare, but at a dearer rate, in the pig-market, alias Pasty-nook or Pie-corner, where pigs are all hours of the day on the stalls piping hot, and would cry, if they could speak, "come eat me." ... Unconscionable exactions, and excessive inflammations of reckonings, made that corner of the Fair too hot for my company; therefore I resolved by myself to steer my course another way, and having once got out, not to come again in haste. [18] Simple fellows. Now farewell to the Fair, you who are wise, Preserve your purses while you please your eyes. Reprinted in Hindley, _The Old Book Collector's Miscellany_, Vol. III. 1702-14. By Her Majesties Permission. _This is to give Notice to all Gentlemen, Ladies and Others, that coming into_ May-Fair,[19] _the first_ Booth _on the Left Hand, over against_ Mr. Pinckeman's Booth; _During the usual time of the_ Fair, _is to be seen a great Collection of strange and wonderful Rareties, all A-live from several parts of the World._ [19] The London district of Mayfair includes the site of this fair, and was named after it. _Vivat Regina._ _Advertisement in a collection at the British Museum._ 1734. _At the Great_ THEATRICAL BOOTH ON the Bowling-Green behind the Marshalsea, down Mermaid-Court next the Queens Arms Tavern, during the Time of Southwark Fair (which began the 8th instant and ends the 21st), will be presented that diverting droll, call'd _The True and Ancient History of_ MAUDLIN, _the Merchants Daughter of_ BRISTOL, AND _Her constant Lover_ ANTONIO,