Contract? Why, the whole Tribe of Card-match-makers which frequent the Quarter, paffed by his Door the very next Day, in Hopes of being bought off af ter the fame manner. IT is another great Imperfection in our London Cries, that there is no juft Time nor Measure obferved in them. Our News fhould indeed be published in a very quick 'Time, because it is a Commodity that will not keep 'cold. It fhould not, however, be cried with the fame Precipitation as Fire: Yet this is generally the Cafe: A Bloody Battle alarms the Town from one End to ano⚫ther in an Instant. Every Motion of the French is publifhed in fo great a Hurry, that one would think the Enemy were at our Gates. This likewife I would take upon me to regulate in fuch a manner, that there should be fome Distinction made between the fpreading of a < Victory, a March, or an Incampment, a Dutch, a Portugal, or a Spanish Mail. Nor muft I omit under this Head, thofe exceffive Alarms with which feveral boisterous Rufticks infeft our Streets in Turnip-Season, and' which are more inexcufable, because these are Wares which are in no Danger of cooling upon their Hands. THERE are others who affect a very flow Time,' and are, in my Opinion, much more tunable than the former; the Cooper in particular fwells his last Note in an hollow Voice, that is not without its Harmony; nor can I forbear being infpired with a moft agreeable Melancholy, when I hear that fad and folemn Air with which the Publick are very often asked, if they have any Chairs to mend Your own Memory may fuggeft to you many other lamentable Ditties of the fame Nature, in which the Mufick is wonderfully languishing and me<lodious. I am always pleafed with that particular Time of the Year which is proper for the Pickling of Dill and Cucum<bers; but alas, this Cry, like the Song of the Nightingale, < is not heard above two Months. It would therefore be worth while to confider, whether the fame Air might not in fome Cafes be adapted to other Words. IT might likewife deferve our moft ferious Confideration, how far, in a well-regulated City, thofe Humourists are to be tolerated, who, not contented with syst. 1000 the • the traditional Cries of their Forefathers, have invented I must not here omit one particular Abfurdity which FOR ASMUCH therefore as Perfons of this Rank 6 I am, SIR, &c. Ralph Crotchet. IN DE X A A Bfence of Lovers, Death in Love, N. 241. How Abftinence, the Benefits of it, N. 193. Atefta, his Anfwer to Limborch touching the Multiplicity Admiration, one of the moft pleafing Paffions, N. 237. Advertisement from Mr. Sly the Haberdafher, N. 187. Ambition, by what to be measured, N. 188. Many times .1 Apes, what Women fo called, and defcribed, N. 244. Appetites, fooner moved than the Paffions, N. 208; Argus, his Qualifications and Employments under Juno,~ VOL. III. Ariftanetus Ariftanetus his Letters, fome Account of them, N. 238. Acheifts great Zealots, N. 185. and Bigots, ibid. Their B. Bawdy-Houfes frequented by Wife Men not out of Wantonnefs but Stratagem, N. 190. Beggars, Sir Andrew Freeport's Opinion of them, N. 232, Butts: the Adventure of a Butt on the Water, N. 175. C. Aprice often acts in the Place of Reason, N. 191. Charles the Great, his Behaviour to his Secretary, whe Children, the Unnaturalnefs in Mothers of making them Chinese, the Punishment among them for Parricide, Christian Religion, the clear Proof of its Articles, and Club. The She-Romp Club, N. 217. Methods obferved by Club-law a convincing Argument, N. 239. Coffee-Houfe Difputes, N. 197. Comfort, what, and where found, N. 196. Conftancy in Sufferings, the Excellency of it, N. 237. Coverley, Sir Roger de, a Difpute between him and Sir Cowards naturally impudent, N. 231. Credulity in Women infamous, N. 190. Cries of London require fome Regulation, N. 251. Cunning, the Accomplishment of whom, N. 237. Cyndas Cynaas, Pyrrhus's chief Minister, his handsome Reproof D. D Ebauchee, his Pleasure is that ofa Deftroyer, N. 199 Dedications, the Abfurdity of them in general, N. 188. The Errors into Devotion. A Man is diftinguifh'd from Brutes by Devo- The Notions the most Refined among the Heathens had of it, 207. Socrates's Difcontent, to what often owing, N. 214. 4 Difcretion an Under-Agent of Providence, N. 225. Di- Diftinction, the Defire of it implanted in our Natures, and Doctor in Moorfields, his Contrivance, N. 193. Derigney, Monfieur, his Piece of the Transfiguration ex- Drinking, a Rule prefcribed for it, N. 195. Dutch, their Saying of a Man that happens to break, E E. of it, N. 215. The first thing to be taken Care of Eginhart, Secretary to Charles the Great, his Adventure Epictetus, his Allufion on human Life, N. 219. Epitaph of a charitable Man, N. 177. Erafmus infulted by a Parcel of Trojans, N. 239. Eftates generally purchafed by the flower Part of Man- Eugenius appropriates a tenth Part of his Eftate to charita- St. Evremont, his Endeavours to palliate the Romish Su- Exercife, the most effectual Phyfick, N. 195. EX |