58. Lady _N----_, who had but a very homely Face, but was extremely well shaped, and always near about the Legs and Feet, was tripping one Morning over the _Park_ in a Mask; and a Gentleman followed her for a long while making strong Love to her, he called her his _Life_, his _Soul_, his _Angel_, and begged with abundance of Earnestness, to have a Glimpse of her Face; at last when she came on the other Side of the Bird-Cage Walk, to the House she was going into, she turned about and pulling off her Mask: Well, Sir, said she, what is it you would have with me? The Man at first Sight of her Face, drew back, and lifting up his Hands, O! _Nothing!_ Madam, _Nothing_, cry'd he; I cannot say, said my Lady, but I like your Sincerity, tho' I hate your Manners. 60. Sir _B--ch--r W----y_, in the Beginning of Queen _Anne_'s Reign, and three or four more drunken Tories, reeling home from the _Fountain-Tavern_ in the _Strand_, on a _Sunday_ Morning, cry'd out, we are the pillars of the Church, no, by G--d, said a Whig, that happened to be in their Company, you can be but the _Buttresses_, for you never come on the Inside of it. 61. After the Fire of _London_, there was an Act of Parliament to regulate the Buildings of the City, every House was to be _three Stories_ high, and there were to be no _Balconies_ backwards: A _Gloucestershire_ Gentleman, a Man of great Wit and Humour, just after this Act passed, going along the Street, and seeing a little crooked Gentlewoman, on the other Side of the Way, he runs over to her in great haste, Lord, Madam, said he, how dare you to walk the Streets thus publickly? Walk the Streets! why not! answered the little Woman. Because said he, you are built directly contrary to Act of Parliament, you are but two Stories high, and your _Balcony_ hangs over your House-of-Office. 62. One Mr. _Topham_ was so very tall, that if he was living now, he might be shewn at _Yeate's_ Theatre for a Sight, this Gentleman going one Day to enquire for a Countryman a little Way out of Town, when he came to the House, he looked in at a little Window over the Door, and ask'd the Woman, who sat by the Fire, if her Husband was at Home. No, Sir, said she, but if you please to _alight_ and come in, I'll go and call him. 63. The same Gentleman walking across _Covent-Garden_, was asked by a Beggar-Woman, for an Half-penny or Farthing, but finding he would not part with his Money, she begg'd for Christ's-Sake, he would give her one of his old _Shoes_; he was very desirous to know what she could do with one Shoe, to make my Child a _Cradle_, Sir, said she.