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many ny other Obligations, I owe several Hints of it to Dr. Swift. And if you will so far continue your Favour as to write against it, I beg you to oblige me in accepting the following Motto.

---Non tu, in Triviis, Indocte, solebas Stidenti, miserum, stipulâ, disperdere Carmen?Stidenti, miserum, stipulâ, disperdere Carmen: “Dunce at the best; in Streets but scarce allow’d / To tickle, on thy Straw, the stupid Crowd.”—Virgil, “The Third Pastoral,” ll. 36–7, The Works of Virgil: Containing his Pastorals, Georgics and Æneis. Translated into English verse; by Mr. Dryden (London: Tonson, 1697).

ERRATA.

PAGE 35. Line 8. instead of around the Square, read along the Square. Page 38. Line 14. instead of Clouds roll on, read Clouds move on. Page 50. Line 9. instead of tinsilled Slaves, read tinsell’d Slaves.

TRIVIA

TRIVIA.


BOOK I

Of the Implements for walking the Streets, and
Signs of the Weather
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THROUGH Winter Streets to steer your Course aright, How to walk clean by Day, and safe by Night, How jostling Crouds, with Prudence, to decline, When to assert the Wall,assert the Wall: to remain close to the wall of the building, which was the cleanest and safest place to walk. and when resign, I sing: Thou, Trivia,Trivia: the poet invokes Trivia (the Roman name for the three-headed or three-bodied Greek goddess Hecate) as his Muse. The Romans identified Trivia with Diana, worshipped where three roads meet. Trivia is also a Latin word meaning “public streets.” The plural, trivium, means crossroads, the junction where three streets meet.  aid my Song, Thro spacious Streets conduct thy Bard along;
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