“This place is very beautiful. Here the ribs of a thousand pounds beating against the Needles— those dangerous rocks, credulity here floated, to and fro, silks, stuffs, camlets, and velvet, without giving place to each other, according to their dignity; here rolled so many pipes of canary, whose bungholes lying open, were so damaged that the merchant may go hoop for his money," A less picturesque, but more truthful, and, therefore, more melancholy description of the same scene, is furnished by the shrewd and satirical Ned Ward, who informs us, in the "Delectable History of Whittington's College," that "When the prisoners are disposed to recreate themselves with walking, they go up into a spacious room, called the Stone Hall; where, when you see them taking a turn together, it would puzzle one to know which is the gentleman, which the mechanic, and which the beggar, for they are all suited in the same garb of squalid poverty, making a spectacle of more pity than executions; only to be out at the elbows is in fashion here, and a great indecorum not to be threadbare. You won't have him long. The owner was at the door unhooking a few articles of wearing apparel which he had exposed outside for sale. ” “Well, I have two,” said Mr. "Every inch of it," replied the woollen-draper. It was easy to discern Gianfrancesco’s mood. Who’s for a rubber of whist?” Ennison made so many mistakes that he was glad to cut out early in the evening. ‘He prayeth best who loveth best—all things both great and small. Servants were passing backwards and forwards with tea and chocolate. ” The hand lingered too long.
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