The works of Mr. Thomas Brown, serious and comical : in prose and verse, with his remains in four volumes compleat; vol. IIBrown, Thomas
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The works of Mr. Thomas Brown, serious and comical : in prose and verse, with his remains in four volumes compleat; vol. II
Brown, Thomas
English wit and humor -- Early works to 1800; Erotic literature -- Early works to 1800; Latin literature -- Translations into English
Finding justice impartially administered in _Hell_, you may perhaps have
the curiosity, gentlemen, to enquire what sort of reception my lord
_Double_ of _Turn-about-hall_ found among us upon his arrival into these
dominions. I must tell you then, that to the universal admiration of our
infernal world, my lord is become _Pluto_’s great favourite, so that
nothing almost is transacted here without his advice and direction.
Every body indeed expected, that his lordship who changed his religion
on purpose to delude the unhappy prince, whose prime confident he was,
and at the same time kept a private correspondence with his enemy in
_Holland_, would have found an entertainment suitable to his deserts,
been loaded with chains, and regaled with liquid sulphur; but hitherto
he has either had the good luck, or management, to avoid it. A sudden
gust of wind had blown away the fan from the top of _Pluto_’s kitchin,
that very afternoon he came here. Our monarch was first in the mind to
clap his lordship’s breech upon the iron-spike, and make a weathercock
of him (the only thing he was fit for) that with every whiff of
brimstone he might tell where damnation sate. Soon after he was of
opinion to make a light-match of him to use upon occasion, whenever he
had any empire or kingdom to blow up. But at last carefully considering
his face, and the majesty of his gate, he made him his taylor, and to
say the truth, nobody knows the dimensions of his _Luciferian_ majesty
better than his lordship: and as it often happens in your world for
noblemen to be govern’d by their taylors or peruke-makers, so my lord in
his present capacity of taylor orders every thing at court, puts in and
displaces whom he pleases, and possesses _Pluto_’s ear to that degree,
that happening to be in company last week with _Aaron Smith_, Col.
_Wildman_, _Slingsby Bethel_, _C--rn--sh_, and others of the same
kidney, who heartily wish the prosperity of old _Hell_, they gravely
shook their heads, and said they were afraid their master _Pluto_’s
government would not long continue, since he had got a viper in his
bosom, and a traytor in his cabinet, who would not fail to conjure up
some neighbouring prince against him to dispossess him of his antient
throne. Indeed ’tis prodigious to consider how this dissembler has
wriggled himself into the good opinion not only of our sovereign, but
even of queen _Proserpine_. About a month ago he had interest enough to
get my late lord _Sh--ft--ry_, released out of the dungeon, where he has
been confined ever since his coming here, and made him administrator of
the _Clyster-Pipe_ to _Pluto_, for this merry reason, because he had
always a good hand at _striking at fundamentals_. That old libidinous
civilian of the _Commons_, Dr. _Littleton_, he has made judge admiral of
the _Stygian_ lake, and the famous Mr. _Alsop_, who wished in his
address to king _James_, that the dissenters had casements to their
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