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BG.765.013
29 Apr 1765:32 (526)
"Hell's a d----d cold mull" the Orkney Dr. cry'd, Sawney few
South and found the Dr. ly'd.
Besides the above, here follows a tremendous catalogue of
North-American arts manufactories and improvements. We have
riddle five, wicker, and other basket makers, plough makers
& joggers, shovel makers, shipwrights, cartwrights,
millwrights, wheelwrights, and wheelbarrow makers, coopers,
tub, kegg, and can makers, engravers, turners and fiddle
makers, masons, and bricklayers, plaisterers and white
washers, taylors or beau-makers, mantua, alias belie-makers,
trunnel makers and drivers in abundance, quil drivers of all
kinds, dollar makers, coin clippers & gallows-makers,
cork, corn and hair cutters,. . . [10 more lines in this
para]
Antonio then no more the plate shall win,
And C--l--s brain shall then weigh down a pin.
We have also too great a plenty of wh--re masters, cuckold
makers, law makers, breakers & lawyers, quantum sufficit.
Bird and thief catchers, tea, coffee and chocolate makers
and grinders, club and cudgell makers, silver & gold, black
and white and coppersmiths, one of which, Alexander by name,
hath done me much harm, for which the Lord reward him. We
have clock and watchmakers, coachmakers, undertakers and
gravediggers, trunk makers, judge and justice makers, and
workers in wood enough. Rat & mouse trap makers, new
mongers and makers not a few. Verse makers, poetasters,
fiddlers and pedlers. Hawkers, higglers, butchers &
burglers. . . [rest of column save last 8 lines]
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