improve the Spanish accomplishment of braying; and having large ears, perpetually exposed and erected, he carried his art to such a perfection, that it was a point of great difficulty to distinguish, either by the view or the sound, between the original and the copy. He was troubled with a disease, reverse to that called the stinging of the tarantula; and wouldrun dog-mad at the noise of music, especially a pair of bag-pipes *. But he would cure himself again, by taking two or three turns in Westminster-hall, or Billingsgate, or in a boarding-school, or the Royal Exchange, or a state coffee house. He was a person that feared no colours †, but mortally hated all; and upon that account bore a cruel aversion against painters, insomuch that in his paroxysms, as he walked the streets, he 'would have his pockets loaden with stones, to pelt at the signs. Having, from this manner of living, frequent occasion to wash himself, he would often leap over head and ears into water, though it were the midst of winter; and was always observed. *This is to expose our dissenters aversion against instrumental music in churches W. Wotton. They quarrel at the most innocent decency and orna ment, and defaced the statues and paintings on all the churches in England. L to come out again much dirtier, if possible, than he went in *. He was the first that ever found out the secret of contriving a soporiferous medicine to be conveyed in at the ears. It was a compound of sulphur and balm of Gilead, with a little pilgrim's salve +. He wore a large plaister of artificial caustics on his stomach, with the fervour of which he could set himself a groaning, like the famous board upon application of a red-hot iron. He would stand in the turning of a street; and, calling to those who passed by, would cry to one, Worthy Sir, do me the honour of a good slap in the chaps; to another, Honest friend, pray favour me with a handsome kick on the arse. Madam, shall I intreat a small box on the ear from your ladyship's fair hand? Noble Captain, lend a reasonable thwack for the love of God, with that cane of your's, over these poor shoulders ‡. And when he had by such earnest solicitations, * Baptism of adults by plunging. Hawkes. Fanatic preaching, composed either of hell or damnation, or a fulsome description of the joys of heaven; both in such a dirty, nauseous style, as to be well resembled to pilgrim's salve. The Fanatics have always had a way of affecting to run into persecution, and count vast merit upon every little hardship they suffer. made a shift to procure a basting sufficient to swell up his fancy and his sides, he would return. home extremely comforted, and full of terrible accounts of what he had undergone for the public good. Observe this stroke, said he, shewing his bare shoulders, a plaguy janisary gave it me this very morning at seven o'clock, as, with much ado, I was driving off the Great Turk. Neighbours, mind this broken head deserves a plaister. Had poor Jack been tender of his noddle, you would have seen the Pope and the French King, long before this time of day, among your wives and your warehouses. Dear Christians, the Great Mogul was come as far as White-chapel; and you may thank these poor sides, that he hath not (God bless us) already swallowed up man, woman, und child. It was highly worth observing, the singular effects of that aversion or antipathy which Jack and his brother Peter seemed, even to an affectation, to bear against each other *. Peter had The Papists and Fanatics, though they appear the Inost averse against each other, yet bear a near resemblance, in many things, as hath been observed by learned men. Ibid. The agreement of our Dissenters and the Papists, in that which Bishop Stillingfleet called, The fanaticism of the church of Rome, is ludicriously described for several pages together, by Jack's likeness to Peter, and their |