Printed for C. Bates,[F. 30] at the Sun and Bible, in Pye Corner. [Footnote 30: Charles Bates, at this address (there were three contemporary C. Bates), published in 1685.] [4.] A Wine Cooper in _Mark Lane_ taking a Gentleman down into his Cellar to Treat him, he, finding no Seat there for him to sit on, asked him the reason of it; _Why_, says the Wine Cooper, _I will have no Man here Drink longer than he can stand._ _To Doctor_ Sheerhood _how Sack makes one leane_. [16.] I marveld much last day what you did meane, To say that drinking Sack will make one leane; But now I see, I then mistooke you cleane, For my good neighbour _Marcus_, who I tro, Feares fatness much, this drinke hath plyde him so, That now except he leane he cannot goe. Ha, gentle Doctor, now I see your meaning, Sack will not leave one leane, 'twill leave him leaning. _Tom's_ Ears being lost, [12.] For fear of the frost The haire very long he wears; Then ask him why he will Not cut it; he still Says he dares not for his ears. [8.] A debaucht Seaman being brought before a Justice of Peace upon the account of swearing, was by the Justice commanded to deposit his Fine in that behalf provided, which was two shillings, he thereupon plucking out of his pocket a half crown, asked the Justice what was the rate he was to pay for cursing, the Justice told him six pence, quoth he then, A Pox take you all for a company of Knaves and fools, and there's half a crown for you; I will never stand changing of mony. The Long Nos'd Lass is evidently traceable to Miss Tannakin Skinker, who was born in 1618; but it is astonishing how widely spread is the belief in "Pig faced Ladies." No doubt but there has been some foundation in fact for it, for I am credibly informed that not long since,[F. 31] a child, whose face bore a singular likeness to a pig, was born in the City of London Lying-in Hospital in the City Road--and not only survived its birth, but is in all probability still living. In 1815 a pig-faced lady, elegantly dressed, used to drive about London in her carriage; but whether people were being hoaxed by one wearing a mask is not known. George Morland painted a portrait of the "Wonderful Miss Atkinson Born in Ireland, has £20,000 fortune and is fed out of a Silver Trough," and Fairburn published an engraving of her. Miss Steevens, who founded Steeven's Hospital at Dublin, is also credited with being pig-faced; whilst pig-faced ladies used commonly to be shown at fairs. But these were fictitious, as a quarrel in a caravan at Plymouth, some years since, brought to light, when it was shown that her ladyship was a bear whose face and neck had been carefully shaved, whilst its head was adorned with a wig with ringlets and a cap with artificial flowers. The bear was securely fastened in a chair, and draped to imitate a fashionably-dressed lady.