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The Merry-Thought: or the Glass-Window and Bog-House Miscellany. Parts 2, 3 and 4 · Hurlothrumbo — chapter 2 of 9 · ~169 words · public domain

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reproduced in photographic facsimile from the copies in the William Andrews Clark Memorial Library (Shelf Mark: *PR1195/H8H9/1731). They are bound together with Part 1 ("the Third Edition; with very Large Additions and Alterations"), which was published as ARS 216 in 1982. A typical type page (pt. 2. p. 7) measures 154 x 87 mm. Part 4 is reproduced from the copy in the Bodleian Library, Oxford (Shelf Mark: Douce T. 168).

The

MERRY-THOUGHT:

or, the

Glass-Window and Bog-House

MISCELLANY.

Taken from

The Original Manuscripts written in Diamond by Persons of the first Rank and Figure in Great Britain; relating to Love, Matrimony, Drunkenness, Sobriety, Ranting, Scandal, Politicks, Gaming, and many other Subjects, Serious and Comical.

Faithfully Transcribed from the Drinking-Glasses and Windows in the several noted Taverns, Inns, and other Publick Places in this Nation. Amongst which are inserted several curious Pieces from both Universities.

Published by HURLO THRUMBO.

Gameyorum, Wildum, Gorum, Gameyorum a Gamy, Flumarum a Flumarum, A Rigdum Bollarum A Rigdum, for a little Gamey.

Bethleham-Wall, Moor-Fields.

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