Ah, Doll!
all Mortals must resign their Breath,
And Industry it self submit to Death!
The cracking Crystal yields, she sinks, she dyes,
Her Head, chopt off, from her lost Shoulders flies:
PippinsPippin: a variety of sweet apple. she cry’d, but Death her Voice confounds,
And Pip-Pip-Pip along the Ice resounds.
So, when the ThracianThracian: a native or inhabitant of Thrace, historically a region to the north-east of
Macedonia, which now comprises European Turkey, southern Bulgaria, and the region of Thrace in
north-east Greece.
FuriesFuries: “deities of vengeance, and thence a stormy, turbulent, violent, raging woman” (Johnson).
Orpheus tore,
And left his bleeding Trunk deform’d with Gore,
His sever’d Head floats down the silver Tide,
His yet warm Tongue for his lost Consort cry’d;
Eurydice
with quiv’ring voice he mourn’d,
And Heber’s banks
Eurydice return’d.Orpheus tore...Eurydice return’d: another tragic Greek myth. Orpheus, after losing Eurydice by breaking his promise and
looking back at her while leading her out of Hell, vowed never to have affection for women again, and
convinced his companions to follow his example; the Thracian women were so angered by this that, while
celebrating the Festival of Bacchus on the banks of the river Heber, they tore him to pieces and
scattered his limbs through the nearby fields. See Lewis Theobald, Orpheus and Eurydice, “The Argument,” n.p. (1740).
A Thaw.
But now the western Gale the Flood unbinds,
And black’ning Clouds roll on with warmer Winds,
The wooden Town its frail Foundation leaves,
And
Thames’ full UrnUrn: a pitcher or vessel for holding water.
rolls down his plenteous Waves:
From
From ev’ry Penthouse streams the fleeting Snow,
And with dissolving Frost the Pavements flow.
How to know the Days of the Week.
Experienc’d Men, inur’d to City Ways,
Need not the Calendar to count their Days.
When through the Town, with slow and solemn Air,
Led by the Nostril, walks the muzled Bear;
Behind him moves, majestically dull,
The Pride of
Hockley-hole, the surly Bull;muzled Bear ... surly Bull: bear baiting and bull baiting was a low form of entertainment for which Hockley Hole was renowned.
Learn hence the Periods of the Week to name,
Mondays and Thursdays are the Days of Game.
When fishy Stalls with double Store are laid;
The golden-belly’d Carp, the broad-finn’d Maid,Broad-finned Maid: “maid” here refers to a species of skate fish.
Red-speckled Trouts, the Salmon’s silver Joul,Joul: head.
The jointed Lobster, and unscaly Soale,
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