and fet in a due light; for I have obferved, upon any accidenta I discovery the leaft glimpfe has given a great diverfion to the eager fpectator, as many ladies could teftify, were it proper, or the cafe would admit.

The politeft companies have vouchfafed to fmile at the bare name, and fome people of fashion have been fo little scrupulous of bringing it in play, that it was the ufual faying of a knight and a man of good breeding, that whenever he rofe, bis a-fe rose with bim.

NOTES.

(1) He alludes to the manner of our birth, the head and arme appearing before the pofteriors and the two feet, which he calls the footmen.

· ̈ (2) Victualling-house.] The belly, which receives and digefts our nourishment.

(3) Master of arts.] Perfius: magister artis, ingeniique largitor

venter.

(4) Idolater.] Alludes to the facrifices offered by the Romans to the goddess Cloacina.

(5) Priefts.] Gold-finders, who perform their office in the night-time: but our author further feems to have an eye to the custom of the heathen priests stealing the offerings in the night; of which see more in the ftory of Bell and the Dragon.

(6) Wrinkle.] This refers to a proverb--you have one wrinkle in your a-fe more than you had before.

(7) Tears of blood.] Hæmorrhoids, according to the phyficians, are a frequent confequence of intemperance.

(8) Unquiet.] Their tails being generally observed to be moft reftlefs.

THE

THE

WONDER

Of all the

WONDERS,

That ever the WORLD Wonder'd at.

For all Perfons of Quality and Others,

NEWLY arrived at this city of Dublin the famous artist John Emanual Schoitz, who, to the great furprize and fatisfaction of all spectators, is ready to do the following wonderful performances; the like before never seen in this kingdom.

He will heat a bar of iron red hot, and thrust it into a barrel of gunpowder before all the company, and yet it shall not take fire.

He lets any gentleman charge a blunderbufs with the fame gunpowder, and twelve leaden bullets, which blunderbuss the faid artist discharges full in the face

of the faid company, without the leaft hurt, the bullets fticking in the wall behind them.

He takes any gentleman's own fword, and runs it through the faid gentleman's body, fo that the point appears bloody at the back to all the fpectators; then he takes out the sword, wipes it clean, and returns it to the owner, who receives no manner of hurt.

He takes a pot of fcalding oyl, and throws it by great ladles-full directly at the ladies, without fpoiling their cloaths or burning their skins.

He takes any perfon of quality's child from two years old to fix, and lets the child's own father or mother take a pike in their hands; then the artist takes the child in his arms, and toffes it upon the point of the pike, where it fticks to the great fatisfaction of all fpectators; and is then taken off without fq much as a hole in his coat.

He mounts upon a scaffold juft over the fpectators, and from thence throws down a great quantity of large tiles and stones, which fall like fo many pillows, without

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fo much as discompofing either perukes or head-dreffes.

He takes any person of quality up to the faid fcaffold, which perfon pulls off his shoes, and leaps nine foot directly down on a board prepared on purpose, full of fharp fpikes fix inches long, without hurting his feet or damaging his ftockings.

He places the faid board on a chair, upon which a lady fits down with another lady in her lap, while the spikes instead of entering into the under lady's flesh, will feel like a velvet cushion.

He takes any person of quality's footman, tyes a rope about his bare neck, and draws him up by pullies to the cieling, and there keeps him hanging as long, as his mafter or the company pleafes, the faid footman to the wonder and delight of all beholders having a pot of ale in one hand and a pipe in the other; and when he is let down, there will not appear the leaft mark of the cord about his neck.

He bids a lady's maid put her finger into a cup of clear liquor like water, upon which her face and both her hands are immediately withered like an old woman of fourfcore,

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as young

fourfcore, her belly fwells as if fhe were within a week of her time, and her legs are as thick as mill-pofts: but upon putting her finger into another cup fhe becomes and handsome, as fhe was before. He gives any gentleman leave to drive forty twelve-penny nails up to the head in a porter's backfide, and then places the faid porter on a loadstone chair, which draws out every nail, and the porter feels no pain.

He likewife draws the teeth of half a dozen gentlemen, mixes and jumbles them in a hat, gives any perfon leave to blindfold him, and returns each their own, and fixes them as well as ever.

With his fore-finger and thumb he thrufts feveral gentlemen's and lady's eyes out of their heads without the least pain, at which time they fee an unfpeakable number of beautiful colours; and after they are entertained to the full, he places them again in their proper fockets, without any damage to the fight.

He lets any gentleman drink a quart of hot melted lead, and by a draught of prepared liquor, of which he takes

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part him

felf,