have heard them say, when some men had money that wrought hard
enough for it; and do you conceive they will be better pleased
when they shall be told that upon like occasions you are at
mumchance or stool-ball?

"I do not speak for myself; for though I shall always
acknowledge that I got more by one year's sitting in the house
than by my three years' travels, it was not of that kind. But I
hate that this same Spy, for pretending to have played at
billiards with the most serene Commonwealth of Venice, should
make such fools of us here, when I know that he must have had his
intelligence from some corn-cutter upon the Rialto; for a noble
Venetian would be hanged if he should keep such a fellow company.
And yet if I do not think he has made you all dote, never trust
me, my Lord Archon is sometimes in such strange raptures. Well,
good my lord, let me be heard as well as your apple squire.
Venice has fresh blood in her cheeks, I must confess, yet she is
but an old lady. N or has he picked her cabinet; these he sends
you are none of her receipts, I can assure you; he bought them
for a Julio at St. Mark's of a mountebank. She has no other wash,
upon my knowledge, for that same envied complexion of hers but
her marshes, being a little better scented, saving your presence,
than a chamber-pot. My lords, I know what I say, but you will
never have done with it, that neither the great Turk, nor any of
those little Turks her neighbors, have been able to spoil her!
Why you may as well wonder that weasels do not suck eggs in
swans' nests. Do you think that it has lain in the devotion of
her beads; which you that have puked so much at popery, are now
at length resolved shall consecrate M. Parson, and be dropped by
every one of his congregation, while those same whimsical