11. _A View of the TOWN_: Or, _Memoirs of LONDON_. In which the Humours, Follies, Vices, _&c._ of that Great _Metropolis_, are merrily display’d. Interspersed with several new and witty Songs. _My Book a _Salesman_’s Shop you’ll find,_ Where civilly I’ll treat ye, _To a _Fool_’s Coat of any Kind,_ _You’r welcome if it fit ye._ The Second Edition. Price 1 _s._ 12. _A Sketch of the Miseries of POVERTY._ Dedicated to the Honourable Sir _Griffith Boynton_ Bart. _Happy the Man, who void of Care and Strife, In silken or in leathern Purse retains A splendid Shilling._ Phillips. Price 6 _d._ 13. _A T----d is as good for a Sow, as a Pancake:_ Or, _The Story of a COCK and a BULL_. Calculated for the Improvement of the Modern Wits. Written by _Myself_ Esq; Professor of Dulness and Bombast. Price 6 _d._ _From Nothing comes Nothing, and there remains Nothing._ From a Copy-Book in the _Blue-Coat_ Hospital. * * * * * * * * * * * * * * Errata: The List of Editors was despeckled in scanning. All periods (full stops) were supplied by the transcriber. Editor’s Introduction: By Swine who nee’r provide Bumfodder _spelling unchanged (taken from primary text)_ Primary Text: Title Page: All title pages-- including Part 1, issued as a separate ARS publication-- are essentially identical. --The last part of the second paragraph (after “... Nation.”) varies. --The name “Bethleham-Wall” is spelled “Bethlehem” in Part 3. Part 2: Will make a T d more lasting; _shown as printed_ Part 3: Names the Nymph that I adore. _text reads “Npmph”_ _Save us from sudden Death_, was said, _text reads “wa ssaid”_ Part 4: Shall lay (on Pain of Flagellation) (From lowest Club, to that call’d Royal,) _close parenthesis missing from both lines_ He’el feed on a Jest, that is broke with your Wind, _spelling unchanged_ By Swine who nee’r provide Bumfodder _spelling unchanged (quoted in editor’s introduction)_ E’er I that Suit procure. _text has comma at end_ Professor of Dulness and Bombast. Price 6 _d._ _text reads “Picre”_ Further Notes: Why are _Doll_’s Teeth so white, and _Susan_’s black? The Reason soon is known. _Doll_ buys her Teeth which she doth lack, But _Susan_ wears her own. This verse is a translation of Martial V.43: _Thaïs habet nigros, niveos Laecania dentes Quae ratio est? Emptos haec habet, illa suos._ _P. S. Quintus_ Pope Sixtus V (= Quintus). End of the Project Gutenberg EBook of The Merry-Thought: or the Glass-Window and Bog-House Miscellany, by Hurlo Thrumbo (pseudonym)