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 THE LIBRARY 
 
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 THE UNIVERSITY 
 OF CALIFORNIA 
 
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 M O B I A D: 
 
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 BATTLE of the VOICE, 
 
 A N 
 
 HEROI-COMIC POEM, 
 
 SPORTIVELY SATIRICAL: 
 
 Being a briefly hiftorical, natural and lively, free and 
 humorous, DESCRIPTION 
 
 OF AN 
 
 EXETER ELECTION. 
 
 In SIX CANTO'S. 
 
 Illuftrated with fuch NOTES as for fame Readers may 
 be fuppofed ufeful. 
 
 By DEMOCRITUS JUVENAL, Moral 
 
 Profeflbr of Ridicule, and plaguy-pleafant Fellow of 
 Stingtickle College; 
 
 Vulgarly 
 
 ANDREW BRICE, EXON. 
 
 Magno in populo cum faspe coorta eft 
 
 Seditio, faevitque animis ignobile vulgus, 
 Inftquitur clamoique virura, furor arma miniftraf, 
 Prxfentemque viris intentant omnia mortem ; 
 Difficile eft fatiram non fciibcre. Ridiculutn acri 
 Fortius et melius magnas plerumque fecat res. 
 
 VIRG. Juv. HOR. 
 
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 The Author's Valedictory Sermon to this 
 hopeful Spark, his Progeny. 
 
 GO, thou playfome, flily-fnickering, dry-bobbing Son ft $ / 
 of PHANTASY. That frolic Dame was honejily thy 
 Bother ; conceiv'd, form'd, and with no hard Travail 
 
 (Indignation aiding) brought thee forth. HISTORIC 
 TRUTH, however, had a finger in the pye, and (as ano- 
 ther trite Saying goes) blow'd to thv making. Go ; try 
 thy Fortune, as thy Betters have done As Circumftances 
 allow'd, I brought thee up to --- what thou art ; have now - 
 tolerably cloath'd thee in a decent plain Suit of Print : And 
 what is to be done next but fend thee into the World ? 
 Good Hands receive thee, and not harfhly treat thee ! And 
 may'ft thou beft thrive in thy proper Vocation of pleaftng 
 and prof ting thy Entertainers ! 
 
 I fhould gladly have had beftow'd upon thee a (hort Te- 
 {timonial of fome or other Worthinefs, or good Property, 
 in thee ; or elfe to have got fome Refpeclib e Name for 
 thy Protection. But Patronage for Poetry, 'fhou'd leern, 
 is now no more the Growth of every Clime than is good 
 Poetry itfelf. And alas ! VIHGILS thrive not but in the 
 cultivated warm Garden of a MOECENAS. Kind Fofterers, 
 
 ( One Swallow making of itfelf - - - bur One ) and 
 even a tutelary Matter, feem as difficultly to be met with. 
 So that, at the kft refort, thou muft for a good Run truft to 
 thy own Legs ; or, as fome Folk feem to think, to the 
 compulfive Conduct of thy own PLANET : A Guide very 
 precarious truly ; there being, they tell you, amongft the 
 others, a villainous Twelve-farthing one, a cruel Envier of 
 Merit, malicioufly more bufy with his Influence than all the 
 reft. If fuch their Creed be orthodox, that mifchievous 
 Meddler, perhap, too much tamper'd with my own Nativity: 
 Forcing upon me a radical Itch of Scribbling, nay an ungain- 
 ful poetic Turn j when SATURN himfelf might have taken me 
 
 under
 
 11. 
 
 PREFACE. 
 
 , Why, then, might not fuch, in a fort, behold 
 himfelf, as it were in a Mirrour, in HOGARTH'S 
 MIDNIGHT CONVERSATION, or fome antick 
 Chimney-piece more vulgarly baccanalian? Why 
 fhould the Moral of the jDencil'd Satire be over- 
 look'd or difregarded ? One might be apt to fancy 
 Tavern - Quarrels, painted artfully in Tipling- 
 Rooms, might, if confiderately obferv'd, withold 
 real Gentlemen of Breeding from plunging into 
 fuch Depths of Liquor as might overwhelm their 
 Humanity, and transform them for a Time to 
 fuch worfe than Savages as in Colours reprefented. 
 And we mould imagine, a Man, in calm good 
 Temper, might hate, yet defpifc, his own late 
 Appearance pourtray'd the very Madman he 
 look'd, and behav'd, in Height of that Rage he 
 was, ftrangely he might think^ thrown into. 
 
 And wherefore mould not the Effect hold in 
 parallel Examples? Why might not fome heed- 
 fully perufing a boifterous ELECTION, in which 
 they were Agents or Agitators* (cfpecially of but 
 little if any Moment ) juftly defcrib'd in fuited 
 Verje, be afiiam'd of the ridiculous or bafe Parts 
 which they, as 'twere in Effigie, review they acted 
 in the wretched Farce ? Why mould they not feel 
 a Twinge of Thought at the Dangers which they, 
 with others, prov'd inftrumental ( though, it 
 may be, unwittingly ) in occafioning, as well as 
 Remorfe at being any Way, even undefignedly, 
 acceflary to, Mifchiefs therein committed I 
 
 This
 
 PREFACE. iil 
 
 This Poetic Sketch was drawn to that honeft 
 Intent. Thugh there are very few, if any, 
 directly and perfonally character! z'd, yet Num- 
 bers, if they have Eyes of Underftanding, may 
 difcern their own Images in Defcription expofing 
 themfelves to Derifion, Contempt, perhaps and 
 Deteflation. Alfo may be feen to what a diftracted 
 and unhappy Plight mere Whim and Fantail have 
 brought us. Why then mould it not conduce to 
 the correcting our Conduct, difcountenancing Tu- 
 mult, reftoring Civility at lead, and by Degrees 
 recovering Trade, fo foolimly deftroy'd by hare- 
 brain'd Faction ? Why may we not hope there- 
 upon that Perfons of Equanimity may venture into 
 publick and mix'd Converfation, be there us'd 
 with Good-manners, and fee the Company fit, and 
 in due Seafon part, obfequious and mannerly at 
 worft, notwithftanding their having voted dif- 
 ferently for a Forty Man ( as they ftyle him ), a 
 Mayor, or Member of Parliament himfelf ? 
 
 Though dreading a being furrounded in and by 
 a M O B, efpecially a pent-up contending one, 
 yet, to make proper Observations, and to collect 
 apt Materials, I, for once, voluntarily hazarded 
 myfelf even on the very Spot of thickeft Uproar 
 and Confufion. At which Time, worfe than that 
 of the Painter ( who, furpaflingly to delineate a 
 Battle, in its various Horrors, to the Life, went 
 joyfully to gaze at one, but therein loft both his 
 Arms by his Curiofity ) had like to have prov'd 
 my Hap ; not only almoft crufh'd to death in the 
 a 2 Throng,
 
 iv. . ' PREFACE. 
 
 Throng, but like to have my fmall Portion of 
 Brains prefs'd out, or my Head itfelf wrung off, 
 in the Gateway, endeavouring, at laft, to efcape 
 out of the crowded Hall. 
 
 However rough, unfmifhed, and incorrect, yea 
 trifling and filly, the flight Performance be, or 
 mall be faid to be, my Vanity flatters itfelf 
 it is pretty natural, picturefque, and indifferently 
 full of genuine Humour: Which are Hits and 
 Ingredients not defpicablc in Pieces of this Na- 
 ture. Yes, I am forward enough to fancy, that 
 it is not quite devoid of fuch titillating as well 
 as poignant Humour as may divert even where 
 it nettles, pleafe the Struck in defpight of their 
 Refentment, and force them at leaft to fmile juft 
 upon biting their Lips or Knuckles. 
 
 It being calculated principally for the Ufe and 
 Service of this City, (though not to be fo very 
 local as not to fit other Places ; MOBS being 
 MOBS every- where) as well as the Subject is 
 a Tranfaction upon the Spot, I thought fit to 
 gather many of the collateral Incidents, Similes, 
 Allufions, and other embellifhing Circumftances, 
 as well as fome Words and Phrafes of Propriety, 
 from the proper Scene of Action, and Parts ad- 
 jacent ; fo as to adapt the Poem moft properly 
 to the Place. The lime of the Main Action alfp 
 confifls of about Six Hours , each diftinguilVd pro- 
 perly by concomitant Tokens, well known to the 
 
 Inhabitants.
 
 PREFACE. v . 
 
 Inhabitants. In managing of which, though the 
 more ftreighten'd thereby of Fancy, I have had 
 this one Advantage of fervile mechanic Imitators, 
 and Common - place Authors, viz. of writing 
 Things certainly my own, yea alfo, fuch as they 
 are ! probably new. 
 
 But, as it's not impoflibie it may iikewife fall 
 into the Hands of Strangers, and at a Diftance, 
 and live too when the prefent Generation have all 
 Jeft the Light, I have in the Bottom Margin fur- 
 nifh'd fuch with explanatory Notes, as well as illi- 
 terate Readers among ourfelves with a few others, 
 which they may need, feverally, to apprehend 
 Matters by. 
 
 Now, if the neighbourly prime END of it be 
 happily attain'd, let the Execution itfelf be iaugh'd 
 at, defpis'd, or vilify'd, as much as thofe who kndw 
 any or no Reafon for it pleafe. Real Errors, as 
 well as fmaller Slips, qu<e aut incuria fudit, &c. 
 (As where is the Work which has of all been 
 thought abfolutely clear of 'em ; fmce even that 
 of POPE himfelf has not appear'd infallible 
 are, I queftion not, plenteous enough in it; and 
 may be confpicuous to more judicious and lefs con- 
 cerned Eyes, though my own too fond ones may 
 not have been able hitherto to difcover them : In, 
 which, as the Great VIRGIL himfelf found Gold 
 in the Drols of E N N i us, poffibly the mod cen- 
 forious and malevolent may own, that though there 
 
 arc
 
 yj. PREFACE. 
 
 arc fomc * Lines and Paffages but fo fo enough of 
 any ZOILUS* Confcicnce, a great many more may 
 be tolerable and payable ; and fome belter than 
 could be expefted from fuch a Country City as is 
 Old EXETER. 
 
 I was launching, perhaps, into a too deep Pre- 
 fumption, and abaftYd draw back. And yet, if 
 any one mall think fit to attack, cavil at, or 
 banter it, or any the worft of it he can cull out, 
 let him but do it fairly, above-board, like a Man 
 confcious of his Ability, or righteoufly fo as it may 
 come duely to my Knowledge, and I will thank 
 him as for a Favour, however roughly, or fport- 
 fully (yet not abufively^, handled by him. If he 
 condemns the Whole in Grofs, or any Part, it 
 feems but equitable he mould openly fix upon Par- 
 ticulars, and afiign Reafons, in their Turn alfo 
 to be examin'd whether folid and of Force, or not ; 
 and whether indeed the found Faults may not 
 happen to lie in the Finder. Such fometimes 
 proves to be the Cafe. Some Wou'd-be Criticka 
 poffibly but dream that even minor Poets ( or, if 
 you will fo have it, Poetafters) nod. 
 
 A Man is not, indeed, oblig'd to like a Thing ; 
 and it may be juft enough in him to fay he does 
 not like it ; and that for the fubftantial and un- 
 
 anfwerable 
 
 * Alluding to Sunt bonx t funt qu&dam mediocra y Junt 
 mala plura.
 
 PREFACE. vii. 
 
 anfwerable Reafon, becaufe be does not. Let a Man 
 be ple-as'd at what him pleafes. But alas ! to prove 
 the Thing which he may have taken in his Head, 
 or in his Will, to diflike, (or, haply, has not in his 
 Head whereby to like) to the Author's Face to be 
 in Fat condemnable, and give fufficient Reafons 
 why no one elfe ought to like it, may not be fo 
 cafy, or fo fafe. For the Tables might be turn'd 
 upon him, and the Caufe of his finding fault may 
 be found to be either his own Malice or Ignorance, 
 as well as Selfconceit, or Want of Judgment, 
 Tafte, or Ingenuity. 
 
 If but in private only any abufively treat this 
 Endeavour to do good, as is too oft* the Cuftom, 
 fuch clandeftine Cenfure is pitiful and fneaking, 
 and is the Part of but Scoundrels in the true Senfe 
 of the Word. 
 
 " Something two much, perhaps, of this " : 
 For till I hear what Faults fhall appear in, or 
 be attributed to, the well - intended Opufculunij 
 much Apology feems needlefs, and hardly per- 
 tinent. 
 
 However, a Word by way of Prevention, in 
 one particular Refped, may be requifite. To afiay 
 a methodical Narrative of the whole (vifible) Tranf- 
 action, I found a Neceflity juft a little to touch on 
 the Appearance in it of our Worfhipful Superiors, 
 The Time, the Defign, the Nature, the facetious 
 
 Spirit
 
 viii. PREFACE. 
 
 Spirit expectable in fuch a Poem, all, neceflarily 
 exacted a like jocular Style in this with what runs 
 through its other Parts. If the light Manner of 
 ExprefTion may feem to over-fufpicious and fan- 
 ciful Eyes to betoken an indecent Difrefpect in' me 
 towards THEM, fuch Seem is a falfe Appearance. 
 I profefs a fincere Veneration for Legal Offices, and 
 all who worthily bear and maintain 'em. Neither 
 indeed hath the Mufe, though me may have been a 
 little familiar, and innocently playfome perhaps, 
 in the lead whit been affronting, or even unman- 
 nerly. She has not taken a Tithe Part of the 
 Licence claim'd by, and allow'd to, others on like 
 Occafions. ' But even had me fallen with down- 
 right Invective on the Greateft among our Citizens 
 that afted fcandaloufly and bafely in their Stations, 
 fhe were by Rcafon intirely juftifiable. " For 
 (fays the judicious Controvertift as well as mighty 
 Poet * MILTON) c< though Men ought not to 
 * l fpeak evil of Dignities which are juft, yet no- 
 " thing hinders us to fpeak evil, as oft* as it is the 
 " Truth, of thofe who in their Dignities do evil. 
 " Thus did our SAVIOUR himfelf, JOHN the 
 ; Baptift, and STEPHEN the Martyr/' 
 
 And mould it be conjectur'd there were Inu- 
 endo's lurking of fome not over honourable Ma- 
 nagement, and fly Sneers at queer Foibles, in fome 
 few, even fuppos'd to be diftinguifh'd Perfonages, 
 
 it 
 
 * In his Iconeclaftes. Art. xv.
 
 PREFACE. Ls. 
 
 it might be anfwer'd, Some Faults and Oddities 
 in fuch Perfonages may be exploded and fmiled at, 
 and yet the inviolable Dignity of their Stations and 
 Functions be heartily refpecled. We know what is 
 faid to the miftaken proud Als bearing the Image 
 of Is is, by the Kneelers but to the Goddefs, Non 
 /#/, fed Religioni -, Tis not to Ibee, dull vain 
 Animal, we pay this Adoration, but to the DIVI- 
 NITY which thou, Porter, beareft. Befides, none 
 but the Confcious and GaWd can be touctfd by the 
 poetic Lafh , and that Lam but tickles neither. 
 
 There may be Affairs carry 'd on by but fome, 
 perhaps a Majority, palling in the Name of a Body 
 Corporate, which others of them might utterly 
 abhor, oppofe, and proteft againft. Such Gentle- 
 men (for whom I cherim a cordial Affection and 
 Deference) I am confident, have more good Senfe 
 and Good-nature than to conflrue in ill part the 
 Points hinted at. And their Difpleafure alone in 
 the Cafe would grieve me. They will eafily call 
 to mind, in favour of my wonted Jocularity, that 
 when the*CvNic had in a grave Manner held forth 
 againft the Vices of the City, and found that Peo- 
 ple withdrew aloof, and kept almoft out of Ear- 
 fliot, he began to tune his Throat, and fing in a 
 pleafant Strain Part of a comic Song : Whereby 
 he allured to him a considerable Auditory, and 
 gain'd Opportunity of declaiming againft their fa- 
 
 b vouritc 
 
 * DIOGENES.
 
 x. P R E FA C E. 
 
 vourite Foibles (though) in his wonted, numerous, 
 more agreeable Way. 
 
 To write an Invective againft the reigning Fol- 
 Jics of the Town, in a Mode and Style intirely 
 rnorofe and ftern, would be far lefs efficacious than 
 to do it in a Manner diverting withal, and in jo-. 
 cular though pompous Language. A bitter Pre- 
 fcription may go down in 4 fweet Vehicle, which 
 would be abfolqtely refus'd, by rnoft Patients, if 
 fimple and undifguis'd. Thefe Confiderations will, 
 I trufr, convince them of the Neceflity of the 
 harmlefs Freedom taken, or rather with their Bre- 
 thren, for the fake of others. As for the reft, - 
 
 ** Why, let the ftrucken Deer go weep, 
 " The Hart uncalled play." 
 
 The random Verfe pretends to aim at no body. 
 And if any body will, by crying out, declare him- 
 felf an hit fome'body, no-body will pity him, 
 but every-body laugh at him. 
 
 As for any coxcombic, proud, pitiful, Jacks in- 
 Office, or " pelting petty Officers", carrying Bull- 
 beef Grandeur in their Strut and Afped, 1 fcorn to 
 cxcufe my at any Time ridiculing iuch ftately Fop- 
 pery. Pride is odious in any ; but mod fo in iuch 
 as can boaft of no Great Extraction, and of but 
 mean Qualifications. The Bride of fuch is moft 
 defpicable; its Emblem the fwelling little Reptile 
 in the Fable. 
 
 . Pcrfons
 
 PREFACE. 
 
 Perfons remote, who may pofiibly look over 
 this little Piece of Rallery, may want to be adver- 
 tis'd, That in the Time of the laft * Election of 
 Members to reprefent this City in Parliament, one 
 Party diftinguifh'd themfelvcs by Cockades of 
 BLUE COLOUR or YELLOW. The Seat of one of 
 the then chofen Members foon after becoming va- 
 cant, before it was known who would be Candi- 
 dates for the Succefflon, the MOB Cwho before us'd 
 to bawl about the Street, Sound for .... fuch an one : 
 or Sound for .... fuch ! naming the Gentlemen) 
 refolving moftly to flick to their Leaders, or Alloers, 
 in the foregoing Election, though intirely ignorant' 
 particularly for whom, chang'd their Notes to Sound 
 for the Plus! and Sound for the Yellow ! meaning ' 
 thereby they were refolute Retainers to fuch dif- 
 ferent Parties as had diftinguifhed themfelves by 
 Ribons of thofc feveral Colours : And thence the 
 Blue and the Yellow became the adopted Terms for 
 'Tory and Whig, &c. Thofe who efteem them- 
 felves of the Better Sort prefently learning them, as 
 well as the polite and genteel calling of Sb-t/ackl 
 of the Filth and Oftscouring of the Kennel. 
 r;* 
 
 As MOBBING and Outrage are indeed but 
 
 fuch, of whichfoever Side the Queftion, and 
 
 fcandalous alike, I impartially diflike, and would 
 
 equally explode, the bad Humour in both. But if 
 
 . b 2 ic 
 
 * That which preceded the Mayoralty of Mr. ARTHUR 
 CULME, which began in September 1737.
 
 xiL PREFACE. 
 
 it be objected, that I ofteneft thus mention the Blue, 
 I anfwer that I do it nothing in Proportion to the 
 different Outcries made. 
 
 Nor let it be underflood as if I found fault with, 
 or would ridicule, TRUE PATRIOTS (as fuch 
 among us there are, who aim the Publick Peace, 
 and to prefer Worthy Perfons, whofe Wilh and 
 Endeavour are the Welfare of the Nation, and of 
 this City particularly ; I lay, I would not have it 
 thought that I in the leaft blame fuch) for their 
 rnoft ftrenuous Oppofition, in due Seafon, to a 
 boifterous Faction. No. Nor can they, I think, 
 be difcommended, of either Side, when MOB- 
 BING is ply'd upon them to obftrucl: their lawful 
 Proceedings, in Times of Choofing, for defending 
 Themfelves and Rights, and repelling Force by 
 then neceflary and juftifiable Force, even the like 
 Force defenfively. My goodnatured Satire bites, 
 or rather gently nibbles, fuch only as arc the firjl 
 Mothers, or Raifers and Encouragers of Mobs, and 
 fuch as perpetually belch out the difturbing Spirit of 
 Mobbing^ and abufe PafTengers or the Inhabitants, 
 when they cannot feign the leaft Reafon for fo 
 doing. The fame well-meaning Satire aims to 
 fhame People, who would be difgufted to be 
 reckon'd not of Gentility and Good Fafliion, not 
 only from joining perfonally with, but alfo from 
 abetting, or even tacitly and paflively counte- 
 nancing, fuch Abominations in the prophane Rout. 
 
 ANDREW BRICE*
 
 Xlil. 
 
 A SECOND 
 
 PREFACE, 
 
 in 1770. 
 
 THUS concluded the PREFACE writ more 
 -than Thirty Years ago. Haply fuch as 
 are apt to " fleep, fave under a Jig or a 
 
 " Tale of , " may think it too prolix. 
 
 Yet, as 'tis elucidating, as well as apologetic, it 
 hopes from the Generous fome Indulgence ; 
 we knowing not well to abridge it conliderably, 
 but by abandoning the Performance to unjuft Sur- 
 mifes. Favour may be the rather look'd for, in 
 this RefpecT:, from the ample Compenfation made 
 by my withdrawing fome Hundreds of Lines, pof- 
 fibly many of the moil lufcious [We mean not 
 obfccne] Lines, from the Poem itfelf, to reduce 
 its Bulk, &c. However tedious the Prefatory 
 Compartment be, fomething additional is ftill very 
 cequifite. 
 
 In
 
 xiv. PREFACE. 
 
 In Anfwer to an inquifitive many : That the 
 Poem was not forthwith, when compofed, pub- 
 lifh'd, was principally owing to my being attack'd 
 with various intervening Maladies, and other ve- 
 ry pitiable and forbidding Incidents, which had 
 fet it by, fcarcely at long" length, remember'd. 
 Thofe miferable Circumftances had quite over- 
 whelm'd me long ere I conceiv'd an Idea of any 
 TOPOGRAPHIC DICTIONARY ; that arduous 
 Undertaking, Labour inconceiveable, and Atten- 
 tion without Refpite, which engrofs'd me whole! 
 In the midft of which .1 was again fuddenly flung 
 at the very Threfhold of Death's Door. 
 
 I err'd in faying engro'fs'd me tvbote: For all the 
 fame while the Management of my News- paper, 
 and all and every the Offices of a Matter Printer, 
 Corrector, &c. &c. whatfoever, Jay upon fingle 
 me. I could ill be faid ever at all to reft ; for 
 when any ihcrt Slumber fhould have fome little 
 eas'd my over . labour'd Thoughts, the D i c- 
 T IONAR Y, that Sifypbian Toil ! flill haunted me, 
 as bad perhaps as a perpetual Ephialtes, during near 
 Five Years together, without Relaxation. 
 
 Notwithftanding all (Be tributary Thanks de- 
 voutly ofTer'd in the Highe^ and render'd here 
 Ie!ow 9 * where fecondarily due ! ) I have won- 
 derfully ! 
 
 * Namely to the worthy Mr. J. PATCH, ftill living, 
 and my fole furviving Helper. / fero in cesium redcat! j
 
 P R E FA C E, xv. 
 
 derfully! liv'd; nay, and liv'd to fee, and to re- 
 joice in feeing, a very happy Alteration ih Numbers 
 of the Common People. The more Confiderate 
 Sort growing afham'd of fuch horrible Mobbings, 
 the Populace have grown alfo lefs frequently riot- 
 ous, in natural very Confequence. Deprived of 
 the intoxicating Swill, heretofore lavifh'd in Pro- 
 ftifion on 'em, to fet them outragioufly a madding, 
 in order to ferve no very laudable Purpofe, they 
 have become in Faff much foberer, in Defpite of 
 even any natural Propensity to, or habitual Avidity 
 of, 'the annual Draff. 
 
 The Boys, whom I juftly ftyled the JUNIOR 
 MOB, and who bore fo brutal, fo fcandalous, a 
 Part in the Mobbing Tranfa&ions of the Day, 
 (and which latter were delineated, and painted 
 from the real very Life, in the Poem) have fmce 
 that Time totally defifted from fuch abominable 
 and dangerous Praclifes. Such their Reformation, 
 may poffibly have been owing, in a meafure, to 
 better Tutorage, and ftricter Difcipline at School $ 
 the Charity-Schools not excepted. 
 
 I with Pkafure, moreover, fee Reformation and 
 Improvement particularly in our Butchers ; thofe 
 rugged Chief tarn of the MOB in their Old Days of 
 Battle. They moftly prove at this Juncture very 
 different Perfons from thofe defcribed as ih former 
 Times. Several of them now appear as polite in 
 Gonvcrfation at Jeaft as other Tradefmen, nor arc 
 
 they
 
 xvi. PREFACE. 
 
 they at Elections more turbulent ; on the contrary 
 their Countenances appear far lefs truculent at them 
 than heretofore they did. And, Who could 
 ever have expected, Thirty Three Years ago, 
 that the Shambles would fo have produced a 
 Roscius (a) for the" Stage ! 
 
 I, for my own Part, ( ever loth to offend ) am 
 become full eafy in the Publication at this fo diftant 
 a Time from the penning of the Poem ; in as much 
 as there remains alive not fo much as One Indi- 
 vidual of thofe who were, in any refpec~b, glanced 
 at, or fatirically alluded to, in the pompoufly-ludi- 
 crous Touch-of-the-Time : that blameable Old 
 Time. Nor is there one fingle Perfon NOW who 
 can reafonably think bimfelf levell'd at thereby. 
 Such therefore as mew thernfelves touch'd will be 
 Funners of themfelves. 
 
 The MUSE indeed ingenuouHy owns, me de- 
 figned a flight fiing, or fo, at feme greatly offend- 
 ing FEW. Nor new at all repents me. She 
 wrong*d neither of them in the fmalleft Tittle, 
 when me defcribed their ridiculous flrutting Mien, 
 their fulfome fantaftic Behaviour, to fay no worfe, 
 at all Times. And, alas ! did I but relate that 
 vile, cruel, yet fottilh, Attempt upon my very 
 Life, (entirely innocent and faultlefs in Deed, 
 
 Word* 
 
 (a] RtJdtU) viz. Our worthy good Friend Mr. J o $ 
 FOOT.
 
 PREFACE. xvii. 
 
 Word, and Thought,) the Day, the very mad 
 Day, Twelve month after the JEra. of the Poem, 
 viz. in Sept. 1738, when the Mayoralty of Mr. 
 C u L M E was juft upon its Expiration ; by him- 
 felf the faid Right Worfhipful, the then R-c-d-r, 
 and divers collected Aldermen ; and thefe goaded 
 on by TERTULLUS SECUNDUS, of Croak -Hum: 
 All full of Fury: Subferviently aided by a Pof- 
 fe of over-officious Conftables, and Mob-Ccnftables 
 for the Day : I fay, did I, as I might, fully detail 
 the vile Affair, Readers might cry Amazement \ 
 at my uncommon Paflivity, and think me indeed 
 Pidgeon-liver'd, in not having been adequately fe- 
 vere upon them. But I pretty well expos'd their 
 headlong Doings, and fatisfactorily aveng'd myfelf, 
 then forthwith, in my News-paper. 
 
 I particularly confefs to have tipp'd a poetic 
 Fillip or two on fomc of the latterly mention'd 
 inferior Great Ones, at whofc Head march* d^ or 
 rather pranced, my worthy fweet Brother G E o. 
 C-M-NGS: HE, who endeavour*d, by Wheedle, 
 to feduce my very Daughter, as H E thought and 
 de/ign'dj to get her own Father murder* d in the 
 Name of Law. In fetting forth his coxcombic 
 Air in the Ambulation to the Life, the MUSE 
 has aim'd at doing lels than Juflicc : As all who 
 remember him will, I believe, amply teftify. 
 N. B. He being higheft Bidder for the Short 
 Staff, or Captain/hip as call'd, procured the faid 
 Truncheon to be ornamentally tipp'd at each End 
 with Silver, and his Name, &c. engrav'd thereon. 
 
 c Born,.
 
 xviii. PREFACE. 
 
 Born, bred, brought up, and having always 
 dwelt, in this City, I have a fort of natural In- 
 clination to love her, as my Mother, and wifli 
 fmcerely for her Welfare. And having been well 
 accepted, and in the main hahdfomly treated, from 
 my puerile Days upward, by the Generality even 
 of the Better Sort, I joyfully congratulate my wor- 
 thy Townfmen on the happy Reformation of Be- 
 haviour that hath in Part already taken place, efpe- 
 cially at Elections, though not as yet to all Per- 
 feflion, and fuch 35, we hope, Time will gradually 
 bring about. 
 
 And, oh ! may this my playfome Satire, and 
 jocular Rebuke, greatly conduce thereto ! 
 
 During my poor Remains of Life I mall heartily 
 wifh a Continuance of Profperity, and growing 
 Reputation, in all Refpects, to this my beloved 
 native EXETER- 'from which no Endeavours 
 have prevail'd to draw me away) till with all 
 other Places me be, at laft, diffolved. 
 
 ANDREW BRICE. 
 
 P. S. I beg it may be remember'd all along, 
 that all the Notes and Comments were written at the 
 fame Time with the Poem itfelf, except a few ad- 
 ditional recent ones, for Distinction's fake done in 
 Italics, and included in Crotches [ ]. 
 
 PROEM.
 
 P R O E M. ; 
 
 f \ 
 
 HO W Lords defuncl grow Cherubs may 
 pertain 
 To reaching Bards, who Heav'n explore, 
 
 the Strain - y 
 
 Who ken, with licens'd Eyes of glaring Hope, 
 Beyond the Stars, through Fancy's Telefcope j 
 Puff'd by fome feign'd URANIA to the Flight 
 Where Rapture bids the Things of Senfe goodr 
 
 night. 
 
 Be theirs with mercenary Fibs to treat 
 How Heav'n rejpeffs the Perfons of the 
 
 GREAT ! 
 
 Worthies of virtuous Indigence ( For why 
 May Virtue not fubfift with Penury ?) 
 Might nobly flarving die, nor Half a Line 
 Canonize Them, or at their Fate repine. 
 To fee them fbar admits no fideling Glance 
 Towards the Poet's Penfion or Advance j 
 Whilft Pimps to Pride by glav'ring Lays may 
 
 thrive, 
 
 Who praife the Dead to flatter the Alive. 
 c 2 Not
 
 2 P R O'E M. 
 
 Not Us by fuch Abufe of Verfe behoves 
 To compliment vain Mortals up to J o v E s 5 
 Though (fram'd of an unfafhionable Mood) 
 We'd celebrate the fcorn'd, brave, tatter'd, 
 
 G o o D j 
 Adore true WORTH and RIGHTEOUSNESS in 
 
 Thrall, 
 And bow to MERIT in an Hofpital. 
 
 Be 't humble ours, impartial ours, to mew, 
 In earthly Rhime, Deeds vifible below. 
 Nor far let our dome/lie Genius roam, 
 Impuls'd to (a) chaunt but Vulgar Facts 
 
 at Home : 
 Yet fcorn, like (b) Bird in borrow'd Plumes, 
 
 to grace 
 
 With pilfer'd Diction Thoughts of Common- 
 place. 
 
 And may, if well fucceeds our timely Aim, 
 More ufeful prove the low, the laic Theme. 
 We own it mean, yet not of Matter poor; 
 Nor find the needed Subject fung before. 
 
 (a) Alluding to HORACE'S Veftigia Grteca 
 
 Aufi defer ere^ et celebrare domejiica faff a . 
 
 (b) Bird, &c. According to the Fable. 
 
 THE
 
 * 4 * XX *** XX * $ * 
 
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 c MMMMMMWMW^H^H^WNVMM^MIlilM)^^ 
 
 THE 
 
 M O B I A D ; 
 
 O R, 
 
 BATTLE OF THE VOICE. 
 
 CANTO I. ' 
 
 OF MOBS, and Mifchiefs which from 
 MOBBING fpring, 
 And pell-mell BATTLE of the VOICE, 
 
 I fing : 
 
 Nor that alone ; for oft' the Conteft knows 
 Voice roughly feconded by Fifty Blows, 
 And Knocks more folid which hard (c) Nod- 
 dles throw, 
 
 And Gripes and Tugs above, and Kicks below; 
 
 Whilfl, 
 
 ( c ) Neddies ) Though Noddle properly fignifies but the 
 Occipitium^ or Hinder-Part of the Head ; yet is it among 
 the Vulgar us'd for the Head entire ; but us'd indeed forne- 
 what contemptuoufly, like as a Blotk Head, a Loggtr Had 9 
 &c. the beft Heads in the World for Boxers, Bruifers, 
 and Cudgellers.
 
 4 e ^, or, 
 
 Whilft, in Clofe Hugs t clandeftine Tooth and 
 
 Nail, 
 
 Unmanly, with difhonefl Wounds prevail j 
 That Scratches, Bumps, Black-Eyes, and Plai- 
 
 fters worn, 
 Veflure befmear'd with trickled Blood, and 
 
 torn, 
 
 Disjointed Thumbs, and many a fefler'd Scar, 
 Record the Fury of the baleful War. 
 
 This War, this Gallimawfry of Debate, 
 Which I, " Thing unattempted yet ! " 
 
 relate, 
 This War owns Fellows-All, like Football 
 
 Play, 
 
 And, r as if All Mankind were of one Clay,- 
 Diftinction quits, that Offal Mumpers boaft 
 Themfelves fo good as Rulers of the Roafl 5 
 Makes Titles ftoop, and with exalting Fire 
 Scrubs face a Knight, and Scoundrels fide a 
 
 (d) 'Squire^ 
 
 Levels 
 
 (d) Country Efquires and Gentlemen having of late [viz. 
 about the Time of writing this Poem] very politely mingled 
 with the common Townfmen at Ele&ions for Mayor, as 
 much as for Members of Parliament, as honourary Freemen.
 
 Battle of the Voice. $ 
 
 Levels fix'd Merchants of Bale'd Staple Ware 
 With Merchants vagrant in a Peddling Fair ; 
 Sets Ale-men, Alms-men, Aldermen, in Band, 
 Tight by each other, brotherly^ to ftand; 
 Makes Mailers lift with Journeymen, and bears 
 Shopkeepers to take on with Garretteers j 
 Rebellious Sons, unnatural of Tongue, 
 Brave theirs, perverfly, from whofc Loins they 
 
 fprung ; 
 
 Flim-iinew'd Taylors with a bluft'ring Rage 
 Tarpawlings, bred in Tempefts, to engage ; 
 Saint-Methodifts communicate in Din,* 
 Strange Coalition ! with the Dead in Sin ; 
 Smutch'd Colliers, armour'd in girt Horfehair 
 
 Bags, 
 
 With mealy Millers to exchange their Fags -, 
 Mean Oftlers Big Innholders to oppofe ; 
 Lean Weavers dare fat Clothiers to the Nofe ; 
 Spruce Valets cope gruff Grooms with rugged 
 
 Noife, 
 
 And Learn'd Attorneys Clerks rude 'Pren- 
 tice Boys ; 
 fyjakes Throats divine, whence Anthems foar 
 
 on high, 
 
 Chime in with theirs who Ra,gs or Rabbits cry ; 
 
 Makes
 
 6 The MOB I AD; or, 
 
 Makes floven Slaves who frowfy (e) Urine 
 
 drive 
 With (f) Beaux who draw Port 's racy Wine 
 
 to ftrive ; * ^ 
 
 Sweepers of Chimneys full prophanely rufh 
 On Sextons, who the holy Chancel brum ; 
 Hod-bearers, and who trample Cob, to bawl 
 Againft their ferv'd Up-rearers of the Wall ; 
 Tinker his Powder black with Barber's white, 
 And Blood on Butcher, fcuffling, to unite -, 
 Brings Gatherers of Taxes loud to vie 
 With Gatherers of Afhes to make Lie ; 
 Trull-needing, broke, Ha'penny-Pamphleteers 
 With hoftile Bawl bombard their Printers Ears ; 
 Debtors not dodge the Bum's rapacious Paw, 
 Nor from flern Beadle flinch poor Rogues-by- 
 
 Law ; 
 
 Makes Juftice, warm'd, abet Sedition fell, 
 And Thief back a Companion Conftable ; 
 Them mingles who gauge Barrels, or rid 
 
 Bogs, 
 
 Command or School or Jail, or ferve the 
 Hogs; 
 
 Dung- 
 
 (t) Viz. to the Fulllng-Mills, from the {linking Abodes 
 of the Female Colkaors of it. (f) Tavern Drawers.
 
 Battle of the Voice. j 
 
 Dung-carriers, Cooks, and who Catharticks 
 vend, [mend ; 
 
 Gems, Gewgaws, Grots -, Bibles or Bellows 
 
 Subfift by Cards or Cocks, Heirs, Hurts, or 
 
 Hops ; [Mops ; 
 
 Make Coffins, Crowds, Malt, Marriages, or 
 Teach Birds or Witnefles ; Eflates convey 
 Or Rubbifh ; fmuggle, or watch Ships at Kay ; 
 Cutters of Corks, Corns, Capers ; Every Sort 
 And Size of Folk ; fuch greedy War (in fhort) 
 As for Recruits craves Blind and Halt, nor fails 
 To rake the Hofpitals and fkim the Jails. 
 
 Yea, frail Inforcement Troops of Manhood 
 
 glads 
 
 From crazy Dotards and yet callow Lads ; 
 Worn wrifled Crones, green Girls, and mellow 
 
 Maids, [Aids j 
 
 Wives, Wh , or Widows, ferve as fcolding 
 
 Unbreecheft Urchins lifp their puny Might, 
 And puling Chits fquall to affay the Fight. 
 
 A True- 
 
 - a ; ~ :.. .' . J
 
 8 <Tbe MOB IAD-, or, 
 
 f True-humourM Pow'r of righteous R i D ! 
 
 C U L E, 
 
 That jeers the idle Hurry of the Fool ; 
 Brands Villains whom Laws reach not, as in 
 
 Game, 
 
 And fncers the Fop's Vainglory into Shame -, 
 Religion's Hood from Hypocrites can fteal, 
 And the falfe Patr'ot through his Mafk reveal ; 
 Degrade bad Minifters in Seats fublime, 
 And gibbet Judges, when unjuft, in Rhime : 
 
 THOU, who gav'il BUTLER, in his 
 HUDIBRAS, 
 
 To fwinge the Whims of EACH fanatic Clafs ; 
 
 BUTLER, who cou'd with mimic Sportings 
 teafe, 
 
 Chide with a Smile, and with Correction pleafe ; 
 
 THOU, who B o i L A u taught'ft with 
 facetious Taunt 
 
 Priefts deadly Dudgeon for the (g) DESK to 
 
 chaunt, 
 ( Dudgeon, which made ROME'S ghoftly 
 
 Gluttons keep 
 
 Fafts uninjoin'd, and Sluggards baulk a Sleep) 
 
 When 
 
 (g) In his Poem call'd The LUTRIN, in EnglHh a De/k<
 
 Battle of the Voice. 9 
 
 When in a Saint's calm Chappie it befell 
 That (b) earthly Wrath with heav'nly Minds 
 
 cou'd dwell, 
 Whilft the proud Prelate curft Revenge ex- 
 
 prefs'd, 
 
 As he in folemn Prank the Chauntor blefs'd : 
 THOU, who fhew'd'ft (i) GARTH with 
 
 Wit's poetic Mawl 
 On his own jarring Faculty to fall, 
 And frump fage WARWICK-LANE'S tranfport- 
 
 ing Feud, [Blood, 
 
 Confeffing (k) P OE A N ' s Sons the Sons of 
 That with unlicens'd Ufe of mortal Skill, 
 Whilft fcap'd the Stick, they'd one another 
 
 kill 5 
 Kill without Phyfick, and, furprifmg ! fee 
 
 Death-Pangs with Pleafure, though without 
 a Fee : 
 
 A 2 THOU, 
 
 (b) Anfwering to VIRGIL'S Tantane anlnus 
 tree ? 
 
 (i) Viz. in his Poem call'd THE DISPENSARY. 
 
 (k) POEAN, the Name of APOLLO, properly as the 
 God or Father of Phyficians;.
 
 io Tbf MOB IAD - y or, 
 
 THOU, CONCORD'S Goddefs ! Thou moft 
 
 ufeful MUSE! 
 
 Me kindly to explode vile FACT I O N ufe, 
 Whom friendly Piques, -benevolent in Ire, 
 
 To feoff down flirewd, yet empty, SQUABLES 
 fire! 
 
 A Lancet-Pen, fet fweetly keen, prepare 
 For my Attempt, by thy conducting Care, 
 The Boil to ope with fuch chirurgic Art, 
 Its Point may tickle with a wholefome Smart ! 
 
 What might defpair the Pulpit, Bar, and 
 Stage, [ Rage, 
 
 E'er to atchieve, though fhou'd combine their 
 May 'ft THOU, by-ftanding, from the abler Prefs 
 Accomplifh with a Wonder of Succefs ! 
 Since Sermons fail, let a Defcriptive Flout, 
 Held a reflecting Mirrour, bring about ; 
 With Raillery cut vicious Follies down, 
 And force to Laughter, to reform, the Town ! 
 
 'Twas
 
 Battle of the Voice. u 
 
 'Twas thus with Joke tohoneft (I) VULCAN 
 
 giv'n 
 
 To reconcile an houfhold Brawl in Heav'n 5 
 Whofe feafon'd Check, divine Buffoon ! be- 
 guil'd [mild. 
 
 J o v E 's Wrath, and turn'd ev'n Vixen JUNO 
 He limp'd to fill, with Mein of comic Sort, 
 The Peace-confirming Mazer of the Court. 
 Each boon Celeflial quaff 'd, in jovial Round, * 
 His brimful Bowl, with nappy Ne&ar crown' d, > 
 And Party Heats in focial Pledgings drown'd. 3 
 
 Help me rebuke, thus, our Inteftine Fight 
 By painting it ridiculous to Sight : 
 
 Yet, though be drawn in ftrong Grotefque the 
 Strife, 
 
 Be all defign'd and colour'd from the Life. 
 Good-natur'd the Intention, though fevere 
 Sometimes our Verbal Picturings appear, 
 Who, ludicrous of Indignation, prove 
 Jocofe in Cenfure, and inveigh in Love, 
 
 And, 
 
 (1) VULCAN.) See HOM. lliad^ Book i. at the Co- 
 clufion.
 
 12 Tbe MORI AD; or, 
 
 And, featuring Blame amid the blameful 
 
 Throng, 
 Drub but with Drollery and fcourge in Song. 
 
 Yet firft it's fitting we in Grief rehearfe 
 Our wretched Change in fome more ferious 
 
 Verfe, 
 Led blind from (m) Wifdom's peaceful Paths 
 
 aflray, 
 
 And pitch'd in Folly's deep diflurbed Way, 
 Or headlong rufli'd from flighted Welfare's 
 
 Height, 
 To plunge and flounder in a rueful Plight. 
 
 ^ In A L B i o N 's Weft erjl throve a Town 
 
 ( ere more 
 There MOBS prevail'd than ( n) MONKS 
 
 fp heretofore) 
 On which fair (o) I s c A fervile waits, whofe 
 
 Site 
 
 NATURE to load with Dainties own'd Delight, 
 
 And 
 
 (m) Alluding to Wifdom's Ways are Ways of Pleafant- 
 nefs, and all her Paths are Peace. 
 
 (n) Exeter was once fo over-run with Monafteries, 
 ami the Vermin therein fed, that it obtain'd the Nickname 
 Monkton. 
 
 (o) ISCA, or Ifc, the River now pronounced Exe.
 
 Battle of the Voice. 13 
 
 And by her (p) Works fence'd from Annoys 
 
 to Health, 
 Whilft with Home PLENTY vy'd Imported 
 
 WEALTH: 
 
 For did its (q) Empory in Gain furpafs, 
 Though now fob we the Boaft what Com- 
 merce was! 
 
 There did indulgent PEACE (as Antients tell) 
 And gay GOOD-NEIGHBOURHOOD, fweet 
 
 Couple ! dwell. 
 
 NATURE to pamper yet abides ; but, ah ! 
 Did friendly Love, off hifs'd, with Trade 
 
 withdraw. 
 
 In ftead, Spleen, Difcord, and Contention, have 
 Flung murder'd Peace in an opprobrious 
 
 Grave, 
 
 Laid infamous Infcripttons on her Tornb, 
 And voted Death eternal as her Doom. 
 
 That 
 
 (p) Her Works.) The City being naturally encompaf- 
 fed with Hills, which help to break the Force of injurious 
 Winds, &c. 
 
 (q) Empory.) The Woollen Manufacture and Trade 
 in former happy Days exceedingly flourifh'd here in every 
 Branch of it.
 
 14 < The MOBIAD; or, 
 
 That GOODWILL Angels pfalm'd from Heav'n 
 
 of Yore 
 
 Is own'd our Duty and true Blifs no more. 
 Sweet Moderation's deeni'd a fneaking Sin, 
 A treach'rous Gate to let Deftrudtion in ; 
 Whilft headftrong Paffion and a rampant Zeal 
 For ftormy Nonfenfe aggrandize our Weal ! 
 
 Hence ragged Penury hath feiz'd the Place, 
 And Defolation much deform'd its Face. 
 (r) Houfes, fhut up, with difmal Fronts 
 
 declare, 
 
 Unhop'd a Tenant cr a patch'd Repair. 
 Yea fome, by Rats themfelves abandon'd, own, 
 Their tott'ring Symptoms, and for Ruin groan ; 
 Or fain, as if by the difgraceful Doom 
 Denounc'd in Scripture, Hills of Dung become, 
 Too like our (s) Rock-Lanes moft upbraiding 
 
 Ground, 
 
 Where once were Charitable Manfions found, 
 On which lo ! Mountains of curft Rubbifh rife, 
 To draw, like BABEL, Vengeance from the 
 
 Skies. 
 
 Hence 
 
 (r) [Such rtally was the Cafe at the Time referred to, 
 (In 1737 y 1738.) when the Poem was moflly wrote.} 
 
 (s) [7he Complaint is now taken off.]
 
 Battle of the Voice. i $ 
 
 Hence Induftry, which, by a fkilful Hand, 
 Adorns, and fortifies with Wealth, a Land, 
 Baulk'd and defpis'd, fcarce lives ; or feems no 
 
 more 
 
 Than a mad Induftry here to be poor. 
 Hence we to Swarms of cumbrous Idlers owe 
 Self- {naming Sighs, and Looks of guilty Woe, 
 Who might for worthy Bread with honeft Joy 
 Their gainful Hands in profper'd Arts imploy, 
 But that, with epidemic Itch o'er-run 
 For Mobbing, they the Means of thriving fhun, 
 And vy in Labour to be moil undone. t 
 
 Be yet confefs'd the Joy (nor let our Foes 
 Couch'd here a knavifh Irony fuppofe) 
 That with our abject Dregs of Folk alone 
 Such begg'ring Fury holds a lawlefs Throne ! 
 Joy that no RULER'S Bent permits to fear 
 (t) A roaring Lion or a ranging Bear 1 
 
 B No 
 
 -."> \ "' '*' ' ?' '* ; " ' ^ ' "* fi "T 
 
 (t) Roaring Lion t &c. See Prov. xxviij. 15*
 
 16 fbe MOB IAD-, or t 
 
 No Turbulence of Soul can recommend 
 One who fhould to conferve the Calm afcend ! 
 Nor Candor's deem'd, but by the Rafcal Race, 
 A Vice difqualifying for a Place 1 
 No : Men of Poft the Way of Peace purfue, 
 Though rais'd in Uproar by a fa&ious Crefw ! 
 
 But hourly we in Vulgar Converfe find 
 A froward Jargon harrows up the Mind. 
 One, ceafelefs, dull, coarfe Tintamar of Prates, 
 Fatiguing Senfe, a manly Hearing grates. 
 Thence due Complacence and humane Deport 
 Excluded are, or but receiv'd for Sport. 
 
 Contention which, when Night's illumin'd 
 
 Queen 
 
 Was in twelve full re-borrow'd Luflres feen, 
 Here fought difturbing Reign by Law a Day, 
 Now through the Year affects diforder'd Sway, 
 More vile, more horrid, mocks with frefh 
 
 ' : v < Alarms, >..- JT*^ ^ [Arms . 
 
 And, reftlefs, keeps her Standing Troops to 
 
 In
 
 Battle of the Voice. \j 
 
 In this frail Age of Abjtinence ! when die 
 The Great quick as the Little brujh away, 
 And fome One of our (u) Guardians Twice a 
 
 Score 
 
 Mounts on the Bleffings of their feafted Poor ! 
 That fcarce a Month the Sky's bright Burghers 
 
 mifs 
 
 To welcome fome juft Steward to their Blifs, 
 And hear th' Approbat from th' Empyrean 
 
 Throne, r . 
 
 [done ! 
 
 " Well haft thou, good and faithful Servant, 
 And et BlefTed, come ; for Heav'n fhall reim- 
 
 burfe, rr) f . 
 
 [Purfe ! 
 
 " With Gain, the Lendings of thy empty '4 
 ELECTIONS on ELECTIONS crowd fo faft, 
 A new begins ere a preceoding's paft. 
 
 B 2 Such 
 
 (it) Guardians.} The Corporation of Guardians of the 
 Poor, Forty in Number, When one of the Number dies, 
 another is always to be elected in his Head ; which Election 
 is +-[vjas at the Time here fatiri-z?<f\ carry'd on, oftentimes, 
 with more Noife and Party Fury than in fome Places per- 
 haps that of ReprefejUatives in Parliament.
 
 1 8 T& MOB I AD-, or, 
 
 Such chaunt we not, nor which in Senate 
 
 gives 
 
 To fit the Town's (x) Twin Reprefentatives : 
 Sing we but what, in Annual Courfe, came on 
 The Day of Old devoted to the (y) Moo N, 
 When SOL Two Se'enights had oblique 1 
 
 his Chair 
 
 [Career, > 
 
 Wheel'd fince from (z) Six to Six he made 
 With fainter Beams in our cool'd Hemifphere:_ 
 About that Tide when Geefe, in Panniers fquat, 
 Turn up alluring Shows of copious Fat : 
 That Day (a) when fir ft, enwrapp'd in flabby 
 
 RagSj [Oifter- Drags, 
 
 Our (b) STARCROSS Mer-Maids cafl their 
 
 Whofe 
 
 (x) Two Reprefentatives for this City in Parliament. 
 
 (y) Moon, i. e. Monday, fo call'd from our Heathen Sax- 
 on Anceftors on that Day worfhipping the Moon. 
 
 (z) Six to Six) viz. about a Fortnight fince Sept, n, O.S. 
 
 (a) That Day) viz. the Monday before Michaelmas- Day. 
 
 (b) The fame Day on which we choofe our Mayor, {he 
 Oifter- Women of Starcrofs, &c. are allowed to begin drag- 
 ging for Oifters,
 
 Battle of the Voice. 19 
 
 Whofe fifhy Ends, hid in their modeft Boats, 
 Need not like Trowfers form their Petticoats : 
 That Year when Pilchards (c) to Our Betters 
 
 fliew'd 
 
 Too plenteous to be Jafhlonably good, 
 With whom goes down no cheaply-vulgar Meat, 
 But (learn'd with artful Elegance to eat) 
 Force'd Viands praife, of recommending Coil, 
 When out of Kind, as out of Seafon, mofl : 
 Year fince Diftillers wail'd the mulcted Sin 
 Which footh'd the Torture of the Guts with 
 
 Gin, 
 
 Save when Two Gallons, fold exempt of Awe, 
 From crimelefs Cogues, as 'twere made drunk 
 
 [Spell 
 That Year when (d) CRUX (as by Magician's 
 
 Ghofts dragg'd arife, but flip again to Hell) 
 
 Slunk 
 
 (c) Scarce ever within Memory were Pilchards fo plen- 
 tiful and cheap in thefe Parts as in this Year 1737. Some 
 of the Gentry efteem'd them a Nuifance. 
 
 (d) Treville Crofs, Efq; a certain half-mad half-fool
 
 20 The MO El AD-, or, 
 
 Slunk From his Manfion-]z\\ with four Regret, 
 And chofe for once to pay the charging Debt ; 
 But, fick of naufeous Creditors, agen 
 For Cure reclaim'd theTJun-defying Den. 
 That Year when in the fair Six-Gated Clofe "} 
 To GOD devoted, (though there (e) MAM- ! 
 
 Moy goes) r 
 
 [arofe, | 
 
 As (/) Limes hadfail'd, young thriving Elms J 
 
 Yet. ere arrives the critic Day, whereon 
 The FIGHT DECISIVE muft be loft or won, 
 
 Alehoufe 
 
 'Squire, of a very good Eftate, who never caring to pay any- 
 body, ly'd perpetually in Jail : But'at this Jun&ure fearing 
 the Aft for the Relief ot Infolvent Prifoners for Debt would 
 affect his Lands and Tenements, he paid the Debt he was 
 charg'd in Cuftody for, and came out. Though he prefently 
 took care to return back to his faid beloved Habitation. Is 
 not fuch an one a proper Object for Satire ? 
 
 (e) The Church-yard, where our Merchants, &c. &c. 
 affemble to talk of Trade and Bufmefs, &c. 
 
 (/) Some Years after the prodigious great Storm in 
 1703) in room of the very large Elms which had been torn 
 up by the Roots, were Lime-Trees orderly planted ; but 
 not thriving, indeed gradually dying, Elms were, as at pre- 
 fent, planted their SuccefTors, and flourilh well.
 
 Battle of tbt Voice. 2t 
 
 Alehoufe Alarms, Street Camps, and Kennel 
 
 Wars, 
 
 . 
 Prelude th Heroi-Comi-Tragi-Farce. 
 
 Not brooking well wifh'd Time's too tardy 
 
 Flight, 
 O'er Pipe and Quart, many a ling'ring Night, 
 
 With Fronts of Council, in important State, 
 
 Huge as of GERMANY th' ELECTORS mate. 
 
 3W| $|j|MJ j*" i,. ;;. " "jjiiO 
 
 Scarce paramount Receivers of Excife 
 
 Heap Royal Pelf in more majeftic Guife, 
 Scarce with a Swell of more judicious Look 
 Foremen of Juries kifs the Sacred Book. 
 Scarce Parifh- Warden, at an Eafler Feaft, 
 Nods Bigger, toafted by th' obliging Prieft. 
 The Baptift Saint fcarce at Sticb-Hall may fee 
 More grand the Chiefs of Cabbage-Company. 
 Scarce a bluff Skipper, in his Realm of W T ood, 
 Top'd up a petty Godhead of the Flood, 
 With kembo'd Arm, full Paunch, and bully 
 
 [ Grace. 
 O'er Punch- bowl fmoaks with more elated 
 
 ^ ; ^AaC "vnr, \\iv. t- t ysl^Q. 
 
 Scarce
 
 M B I A D ; or, 
 
 Scarce ftrolling Hero in Stage-Bufkins drefl, 
 Plum'd Helmet, ermin'd Robe, and gemmy 
 
 Veft, ft 
 
 Setween the Acts a mightier Afpect wears, 
 Whilft He upon the Candle-fnuffer fwears. 
 Nay, an Ale-Draper fcarce, - (who through 
 
 the Bung rrx 
 
 [Dung, 
 
 Once Barrels fcour'd of Dregs, fwept Stalls of 
 But now by Sots fo (g) darnd enrich* d to deck 
 With Golden Chain his Heirefs Daughter's 
 
 Neck) 
 
 [Pout 
 
 At Door, in cufhion'd Chair, with Grander 
 Extends his Cloath-Shoe Signal of the Gout. 
 
 Talk in Alliance future Deeds difplays, 
 And fcarce a Brag but which its Thoufand flays; 
 Or (where in common Room, oppos'd in Will, 
 Men, jumbled clofe, Mugs independent fwill) 
 
 At 
 
 ..; 
 
 (g) Dam'd is now by many us'd as the Superlative 
 Degree, as fignitying very much. My Meaning is, enrich'd 
 by tlifhoneil Means j what is too common.
 
 Bdttle of the Voice. 23 
 
 At Variance to a prefent Charge invites, 
 And bick'ring Boafts prove Overtures of Fights j 
 Loquacious Tongues in. pellmell Clutter run, 
 As Breathings ere the Battle Main's begun. 
 
 . i* . l\ ! i::'-"i- 1- 
 
 Ale-houfes diftant vent their Clam fo flrong, 
 As if did all to one join'd Rout belong : 
 And yet diftinguim we from whence and whom 
 Th' emphatic Twangs of boifl'rous Babble come. 
 
 So, on th' Inauguration of a King, 
 When greater Six of our great Ten Bells ring, 
 Beyond the reft we note, each mighty Round, 
 
 The Cadence from huge (b) GRANDISON 
 refound. 
 
 PISTOL the Second flaming Bounce lets off, 
 More furly rendered by a mingled Cough. 
 CULTER (?) (whom Shares of liquid Bets rejoice) 
 Sputters his dire Ferocity of Voice. 
 
 C TESTY, 
 
 (b) Grandifon, from the Bifliop of that Name who gave 
 it, is the Name of the largeft of our Bells in Peal. 
 (i) Ben. Cornijb^ the Guttler. l '"
 
 24 The MOB IAD-, or, 
 
 TESTY, whofe Clamour fnarls, with Looks 
 afkew, 
 
 Holds forth as if he hallow'd for the Blue -, 
 
 Whilft (k) GLASSMAN^iatnelefs by a Thou- 
 fand Bangs, 
 
 As bold a Clangour for the Yellow twangs. 
 THROUOHSTITCH (/) the faucy, who, each 
 Quart, outlies 
 
 All * Philomaths who ere mif-read the Skies, 
 And irritates corre&ing Fifts and Feet, 
 Is heard to bellow through a Mile of Street. 
 CASTOR (in), with creaking Words, half 
 fnuffled, bravs 
 
 4 
 
 Odious as, wrangling, he at Cribbage plays : 
 Ne'er did a hamper'd Hog whine fo abhorr'd, 
 Nor Gelder's Clarion naftier Shriek afford. 
 
 SWIL- 
 
 (k) Ingram (the firft of the Family) the Glazier. 
 
 (I) Throughjlitch.) This Spark had his Character drawn 
 long before this Time as ' A pert, noify, empty, prag- 
 matical, prefuming, impudent, contemptible, abominable, 
 Coxcomb, Lyar, &c. &c. 
 
 * Philomaths.} Almanack-makers. 
 
 (m) Bngh~-m t the Hatter.
 
 Battle of the Voice. 25- 
 
 SWILGALLON (), lavifh of more Roar by half 
 Than APEWELL mimicking Owl, Afs, and Calf, 
 Blafts his big Organs in a deeper Key -) 
 
 Than Horns, and Hounds, and Bumpkins, 
 raife, when they 
 
 With joint Cry open'd fcare the chaced Prey.. 
 
 Morn, Even, Noon, and intervening Hours, 
 Infulting Terrors now befiege our Doors. 
 Where'er ye turn, reproachful Flings ye meet, 
 And lubberly Affronts oppofe your Feet. 
 A currifh Growl, and a deep maflive Bark, 
 Bays you in Light, and follows in the Dark : 
 
 (o) H-a-a-a-h ! with Barbarity of Look gnarrs 
 one, 
 
 Like Butcher's Dog o'er a defended Bone, 
 Plain in the Mufcles of whofe ruffian Face 
 The Wifh of bloody Maffacre ye trace : 
 
 C 2 Concerters 
 
 (n) Swilgalltn. John St-v-ns, 
 
 . (o) H-a-a-ab !) They pronounce this ugly fpiteful Hah 
 with a rugged, harfli, grating fort of a Quaver, much 
 lengthen'd, like the arringor gnarring Growl of a great Dog,
 
 26 jffe MOBIAD; or, 
 
 Concerters run to back the odious Cry, 
 And, grinning, fnarl a furly Symphony. 
 Next flock grotefque around a faunt'ring Crew, 
 And perfecute you \viikC~Sound for the Bdue ! 
 Or fcarce lefs horribly your Patience wound 
 With like Annoyance, For the Tellow found ! 
 Confus'd you compafs, leap with dafhing Pace, 
 And yelp foul Jeers with impudent Grimace ; 
 With flourim'd Felts, perhaps fkin-deep, aflail 
 Your Face, and rankling leave a ghaftly Ail. 
 Though paffive ye mute expedite your Way, 
 Outrage obfcene will after you inveigh. 
 Nay, thankful be if ye fo clean evade, 
 Nor more material Peft'rings cannonade; 
 
 When no ilain Cat, Clout, Shoe, nor Filth 
 advance, 
 
 Salute yourfelves the Favorites of Chance ; 
 Bleft if you flip their fcarifying Claws, 
 Or fcape expectorated Shot from Jaws. 
 Sing Laud in Rapture, if unkick'd your Shin, 
 Though fpatter'd, linking, drips entire of Skin. 
 
 View
 
 Battle of the Voice. 27 
 
 View with Delight your footed Hat compound 
 
 For Coat's not fweeping, with You dragg'd, 
 the Ground. 
 
 Nav, if o'ercaft, for Miracle record r , ., 
 
 [gor d : 
 
 That Ye arife nor bruis'd, ftamp'd, punch'd nor 
 And hymn Te Deum, as for Life's Return, 
 If a fore-grip'd, not ftrangled, Throat ye mourn. 
 
 f [forbear 
 
 What though fome Topping Vulgar may 
 
 In Perfon to affaffinate your Ear, 
 Too often they fuborn th' Inferior Mob 
 With vafTal Rage you of your Peace to rob : 
 With hir'd Sedition they direct the Broil, 
 And pay in Drink the Wages of the Toil. 
 
 So thofe whom Maftives combating delight, 
 To ftimulate them to the fangy Fight, 
 Stroke firft their hardy Loins, then to purfue 
 
 With fervile Barkings cry Alloo! Alloo! r _ 
 
 [Fray, 
 
 And, when they have fuftain'd the prompted 
 Spit in their Mouths the filthy liquid Pay. 
 
 End oftbefirJlXdnto.
 
 28 tte MOB I AD-, or, 
 
 
 CANTO II. 
 
 T length that (a) Monday which the 
 Day preceeds, 
 
 A 
 
 [(y 
 
 When prais'd the brave (b] Arch- Angel's dough- 
 HeavVs Captain, by whofe Loyal Army fell 
 The Rebel Legions, now the Thralls of Hell j 
 While poor and thoughtful Tenants fore lament 
 The fad Defe&s of the laft Quarter's Rent, 
 And mortgage Gown, Sheet, Rug, and Dim, 
 
 to blefs 
 
 Bed, Crock, and ufeful Pitcher, from Diftrefs j 
 That joyous Monday, dawning in the Skies, 
 Awakes pert Gladnefs in th' Electors Eyes. 
 
 Whip! 
 
 (a) Monday, viz. the Monday before the Feaft of St. 
 Michael^ appointed the Day for the Choice of a new Mayor. 
 
 (b) Arch-Angel. St. MICHAEL. See the Service for 
 the Day, &c. &c
 
 Battle of the Voice. 29 
 
 Whip ! the moft forward bolt unbutton'd out, 
 And, kenning, throw their partial Looks about ; 
 Then, joining, to Difcourfe o'er canvafs'd owe 
 Prognofticks how the Day's Affair will go : 
 And where the Doors firft ope for Tipple's Sale, 
 Time's Forelock feizing, fwig courageous Ale. 
 
 Now Kitchen-Maids, knock'd up by Chu- 
 rers (c), flretch 
 
 Unready Limbs, and Sighs of Envy fetch. 
 The Stage-Coach Porter, malapert of Tone, 
 Swears Jehu, long-fince ready, will be gone: 
 The up-fcar'd Paffenger brief Stay implores; 
 And yet an Hour the drunken Jolter fnores; 
 With owly Eyes the ftrolling Seekers fkulk, 
 And hopeful peer at Stall, Porch, Door, and 
 
 Bulk - ru 1,4 
 
 [hold 
 
 The clean Difchargers, with rince'd Cools be- 
 Stoln back as if afham'd of finding Geld. 
 
 See! 
 
 (c) Cburers.) So in Exeter -are called, thofe in London 
 %1'd Qbairrwomen*
 
 30 The MOB IAD; or, 
 
 See ! chafte AURORA grows with Blumes red 
 Efpying PHOEBUS fprung from TETHYS' Bed, 
 Or fkitting Cats from am'rous Scratchings come, 
 Or naughty 'Prentices flunk drowfy home. 
 The Drummer, on high (d) RUGEMONT'S 
 
 crumbling Mound, 
 
 Beats ftrong the bold Revelle's routing Sound. 
 Whittling to River waggles Groom on Steed j 
 And Milkmaids jocund to Teat-tugging fpeed. 
 The Scavenger drags on his rumbling Carr ; 
 And Gentry's led to guard the Chief of War. 
 
 The Sixth Kour Bell with venerable Knoll 
 Bids Wakers mind or Body or the Soul : 
 This World's Folk up t and wordly Work 
 
 attend j 
 And t'other's to celeftial Bus'nefs bend. 
 
 Tilers 
 
 . (d) The Hill on which our Caftle ftands, and in which 
 the Regiments, at Times, quarter'd in this City keep Guard, 
 is called RUGEMONT, from the Rednefs of the Earth, [I 
 think, beating the Revelle, we know not why, has of latter 
 Years been difus'd.J
 
 Battle of the Potce* 34 
 
 Tilers and Mafons by their Brifknefs (how, 
 They idly to no whole Day's Labour go. 
 Taylors, not franchisd, with a loit'ring Gait, 
 Till Bell rings (e) quick, before King's - Alley 
 
 wait. 
 
 It rings : They fhrugging budge a lazy Pace, 
 And o'er the Shoulder turn a grudging Face. 
 It rings : The faintly few who feel the Mood, 
 And Liberty, and Leifure, to be good, 
 With Lips in Form to Duty fet, and Eye 
 Fraught with Religion's Glance, to (f) Mattins 
 
 hie. 
 
 Handmaids behold, who have, in Cold of Day, 
 The pious Orders proxywife to pray, 
 Whofe Ladies indifpos'd, by Sloth,- a-bed, 
 Depute 'em to act heav'nly in their ftead, 
 
 D On 
 
 (t) At Six o'Clock a Bill knolls, or tolls, for Prayers, 
 at the Cathedral ; then a Bell rings quick to give Notice 
 that Prayers are about to begin. [In King's Alley, at the 
 Time of writing this Poem, liv'd 3 or 4 Mailer Taylors of 
 principal Bufmefs.j 
 
 (f) Mattins. Morning Prayer.
 
 32 7k MOB IAD-, or, 
 
 On Pattins trip,* with fanclimonious Charm^ 
 
 Starch'd (g) clainly neat, with Pray'r-books 
 
 under Arms. r . 
 
 "_. " [drawn, 
 
 Young (b) Choirifters^ from Neft reluctant 
 To Wormip truant, forced Devotion yawn. 
 But Voices voluntier make (hift to raife, 
 By Organs though unaided, worthier Praife, 
 JLefs artificial Praife, while in the Soul 
 Heav'n may hear Melody (i), tho 5 Voices growl. 
 The (k) Pile of venerable Grandeur round 
 
 Emits the folemn Tune : Th' enclofed 
 (/) Ground 
 
 Anew feems hallow'd by the facred Sound. - 
 
 But whence that Nolle prophane ? Whence 
 that (brill Shout, 
 
 Which impioufly quells the Din devout 1 
 
 The 
 
 (g) Cleanly neat. Like HORACE *&_fimp/ex munditiis* 
 (k) Chorl/lers. The young Singing Boys. 
 (*') Melody.) Eph. v. 19. Making Melody in yQir Hearts 
 to GOD. 
 
 (*) Pile, -&c. St. Peters Cathedral Church. 
 (I) Enclofed Ground. St, Peter's Clofe.
 
 Battle of the Voice. 33 
 
 (m) The JUNIOR MOB fonorous ufher in 
 Their Claim of Pelting, and lewd Rites begin, 
 Whofe bufy Sholes ranfack'd the Coinmon- 
 
 fhore, 
 
 And rummag'd Dungheaps, for a batt'ring Store, 
 Hog might in vain feek with fagacious Snout 
 Apples worm-eaten or corrupt to rout. 
 D 2 
 
 (w) Junior Mob.] The Boys. Our true-born Citizens 
 are (Numbers of 'em) train'd up to Mobbing from their 
 Cradles. To the Praife of fuch a polifh'd People as we are, 
 our well-bred Infantry are permitted to fling Turneps, 
 Potatoes, Pieces of Cabbage-ftalks, &c. at the poor Coun- 
 trymen whofe Bufmefs brings them into City this unlucky 
 Morning : At whofe Approach the young Mifchiefs, run- 
 ning to meet 'em, fet up a Cry of A Brother / A Brother! 
 A Brother I and fall a battering of them immediately. If 
 one offer to rebuke them, (as T once prefum'd to do, and 
 had like thereby to have brought not only them, but fome 
 Loggerheads of the Shops, upon my own Back) they daringly 
 reply'd, 'Tis lawlefs Day ! 'Tis lawlefs D#y ! And fo in- 
 deed might it be imagin'd, while fuch barbarous Outrages 
 (as feveral others at different Times, fuch as tho Dafhing 
 up the Kennel- Water on Paffengers, which they call Strat- 
 ting, &c.) are not only tolerated in Effect, but laughM at, 
 and thereby encourag'd. With Indignation 1 remember a 
 poor Man had one of his Eyes thus adually on the Spot 
 ftruck out by one Butler, who afterwards attempted with 
 others to fire the Deanry-Koufe, &c. So they grow up 
 to Villainy by Degrees. Nemo repente fit
 
 34 tte MO El AD-, or, 
 
 Did pregnant Sows for out-caft Onions long, 
 The grunting Mothers, fick, might caft their 
 
 Young. 
 
 Each plunder'd Gutter void of Turnip rills, 
 Nor it a Carrot, or Potatoe, fills. 
 For thefe ere HESPERUS, with brilliant Light, 
 J^ed (lowly on the laft impatient Night, 
 The YOUNG INIQUITIES had fpuddling found ; 
 Arms from aloof by miffive Force to wound. 
 Parfnips and Cabbage-ftalks, to handy Size 
 Cut up, glad with augmented Store their Eyes. 
 The Ammunition fwells each Pocket flrout, 
 And each Hand bears the Surplufage about, 
 Till Clown, mifled by fome malicious Star, 
 Yare by the Strippling PofTe kenn'd afar, 
 And met beyond the mid- way Diftance, grows 
 Th' aftonied Handfel of their volant Blows. 
 Sharp Clamour from their Throats in Concert 
 
 rings, 
 
 And ev'ry Hand a Root, fcarce erring, flings. 
 
 A
 
 Battle of the Voice. 35 
 
 A Brother ! Brother ! they exulting cry ; 
 And Show'rs, full Tempeft, quick repeated, fly. 
 Repeated ? Yea, at a contiguous Rate 
 The Flingings whittle an incefTant Threat. 
 Not half fo frequent noifome Ware is known 
 
 On Perjur'd Heads thro' Penance Loophole 
 thrown ; 
 
 Ev'n though fuch vile detefted Heads pertain 
 To the paid Rafcals of th' Informing Train. 
 Lefs numerous a white long Winter fpies 
 From glowing Hands hard-kneaded Snowballs 
 
 rt> 
 [BIRTH 
 
 And Truncheons, hurl'd to folemnize the 
 
 P i v i N E, maul (n) Cocks lels fwift with 
 
 murd'rous Mirth. 
 
 As 
 
 (n} Cocks."] To the Credit of Parents, Matters, Confta- 
 bles, and other Overfeers, ought it to be over and over 
 mention'd, 'till the deteftable Nufance ceafes, that the very 
 wicked Diverfion [Horrible ! that the Human Nature can 
 ever be diverted with Inhumanity] of Throwing at Cocks, 
 which other wheres, I think, is thus moft barbaroufly prac- 
 tifed but on Shrove-Tuefdays, not only continues here the 
 whole Chriftmas holy Days, but commences forne Weeks 
 before them. It's obfervable too that fome of thofe who are 
 the greateft Sticklers for what they call celebrating die folemn 
 
 Feftival,
 
 36 The MO B IAD; or, 
 
 As he difcovers, ftagger'd and aghaft, 
 On Him alone the frolick Mifchief caft, 
 Bleak Horror thrills his Veins, a qualmy Damp 
 In his chill'd Bofom quails the vital Lamp : 
 The ruddy Brown his burnt Complexion fails, 
 And Palenefs o'er its freckled Fluih prevails. 
 
 His 'wilder'd Thought c Whence his Offence ' 
 
 inquires, 
 What Rage this Infantry of Eelldl fires ? 
 
 Why is, by the Adult, the Youngfter Crowd, 
 He ponders, thus to (o] gallow Folk allow'd ? 
 To gallow ? Yea to gaul, perchance to lay 
 
 Folk fprawling, or by worfe Mifchance to flay ? 
 
 To 
 
 Feftival, too much countenance this horrible Pollution of it. 
 For Shame, ye Parents ! For Shame, ye School-matters. 
 And why fliould I not fay, For Shame, ye Magiftrates, &c. ? 
 It's recorded of Dicgenes, the Cynick, that feeing a Boy 
 commit a Fault, he ran at his Matter, and ftriking him faid, 
 Wherefore are your Scholars not better taught ? 
 
 (o) Callow Folk.'] This being ftill [viz. at the Time 
 fpoke of} a Devon/hire Word, though from SHAKES? EAR 
 it feems to have formerly been generally Englifl^ implying 
 to fright, fcare, or aftonifh, is, I hope with Propriety 
 enough put into the Mouth of a Devonfhire Ploughman, &c. 
 We feem to continue the Ufe of the Word in that of Gal" 
 lows, or Galloiu-Trfe, fignifying the Terrifying Tree, or 
 Tree of Terror. 
 
 -
 
 Battle of the Voice. 37 
 
 Were Bacon Sows in Years too flricken found? 
 Did Pig yield up the Ghofl without a Wound ? 
 Or grow by Art in fopy Wrapper fair? 
 Were Eggs fold addle, or confounded dear? 
 Did Chanticleer, of Threefcore Broods the Sire, 
 A cruel Length of Drop by Drop expire, 
 
 Then, lopp'd of Spurs, and circumcis'd of 
 
 Comb, r ,. 
 
 I room r 
 
 Look beauteous in young Fowl of Turkey's 
 Had breeding Geefe, fucceffive Ten Years morn, 
 
 Their Teeth-proof Hides, to pafs for youthy, 
 torn? 
 
 Was Butter ftamp'd to hide Defect of Weight? 
 Would Doll a* flroaking, or a' churning, fniter^ 
 Such Guilt was-Dtf/wf'jand D oil's-, and but infers 
 They could out-wit o'erwecning (p) Citiners. 
 
 To 
 
 (p) Citiners.] So, alias fooietimes Zitmers t many of eur 
 neighbouring Country People name us Citizens ; whom they 
 are proud to out wit, that is in plain Englijb to cheat) in a 
 Bargain. It's but little to be doubted Pigs and Poultry which 
 died a natural or accidmtal Death have been fold to us. I've 
 Iwen under the Rofe inform'd by a Farmer's Wife it's com- 
 mon
 
 38 Tfc MOBIAD> or, 
 
 To Meajlers Score ought to be chalk' d the Sin 
 Of Faggots fmall, and fappy green, led in: 
 Him, him alone, fhou'd Malediction fmite, 
 When, ftifling puff'd, ^hey fmoulder, loth to 
 
 light, 
 
 Who, teaz'd for Rent, permits their faulty Mirth 
 Whilft, finging, they with Froath befpawl the 
 
 Hearth. 
 
 Dame, Dolt, and Meafter, finning, let pertain 
 To them to expiate with fuited Pain ; 
 But, for himfelf, he ruminates, and through 
 
 Finds Confcience clear of Crime, tho* whelm'd 
 by Woe. 
 
 Then why fhou'd Innocence unholpen wail, 
 And wicked Pranks againft the Juft prevail ? 
 He little learns from the licentious Bray, 
 Commixt with Brother ! Laivkfs, lawlefs Day ! 
 
 Around 
 
 mon to wrap up Pigs in fopy Cloths, to make their Skins 
 caft white. Some of the other Tricks I have myfelf known 
 pra&ifed ; particularly a very fuperannuated Cock, manag'd 
 as in the Text, fold for a young Turkey.
 
 Battle of the Voice. 39 
 
 Around the fportive fierce Tormentors crowd, 
 Each to excel in Pranks mifchievous proud. 
 He wiftly turns for Help imploring View, 
 Cits rural born, made Denizens, on You ! 
 But, fleering pitilefs, ye rather chear 
 The Onfet, and the cruel Paftime fhare. 
 Ungracious , evil-minded Town ! Had THRACE 
 Forfucb a (q) PONEROPOLIS a Place? 
 Might he revolve in anguifh'd Heart, had he 
 Been ichooi'd in Letters and Greek Hiftory. 
 
 With wretched Baulk he'd trciv, Attacks 
 
 fohot 
 
 Might foon expend the Vegetable-Shot : 
 For ah ! as they difcharge, the fcrambling Bands 
 Quick recoiled the Shot with greedy Hands, 
 E Wtiich 
 
 Poneropolh,~\ That is to fay an Evil City, or rather 
 City of Wicked Ones. <c We read (fays Mcnf. Bayie, 
 Di&. Vol. 5. pa. 789. Lend. Edition) " that Philip ga- 
 * c ther'd together the moft kicked and incorrigible Men 
 " of his Time, whom he lodged together in a City he built 
 " for them, and call'd it Poneropofo." It flood in Thrace,
 
 40 T&e MOB1AD*, or, 
 
 Which feem more folid, and alert, to bound, 
 
 Like thrown (r) ANT^US ftrengthen'd by the 
 Ground. 
 
 Brickbats and Stones deficient thefe fupply, 
 And on him heavier Flings of Evil try. 
 
 Were Dung with thofe to fail, and Lemon- 
 fkins, 
 
 Huckfters for Pillage hold vaft Magazines. 
 
 The Hind fobs difmal deep. Sobs nought") 
 
 avail : r 
 
 [Belly wail I 
 
 Back, Sides, Breaft, Shoulders, Neck, Hips, I 
 Their joint Contulion by the pepp'ring Hail. J . 
 His Pate, inclin'd beneath lopp'd Hat, to fave 
 The Face, may foon a Cap of Plaifters crave. 
 
 His drooped Sconce fmart Ruins clatt'ring 
 
 thwack, 
 
 [of Back. 
 
 Thence with continued Stains pollute his Length 
 
 Cheefe, 
 
 (r) jSntants, &c.) The Giant whom (according to the 
 Fable) HERCULES encounter'd, who, as often as he was 
 thrown, receiv'd fiefh and greater Strength from his Motbtr 
 the Earth.
 
 Battle of the Voice. 41 
 
 Cheefe, dry'd obdurate, in his ftoreful Poke, 
 And Bread of Barley, crumble at the Stroke ; 
 Or batter'd the brown ftony Walls of Pye 
 (Tho' firm as a Redoubt) in Fragments lye ; 
 Or Pudding, which did Gobs of Suet teach 
 Confolidation, dafh'd, admits a Breach ; 
 Or dangling Key's from trufty Purfe-ftring torn, 
 
 Or Sheath in twain from Knife, in Trowfers . 
 born. 
 
 By Civil Pow'rs abandon'd to Diftrefs, ' 
 Shou'd mifcr'ant he Agreftic Gods addrefs ? 
 Alas ! old PAN'S no more ; SYLVAN us fleeps ; 
 Nor chriilen'd BRITAIN a POMONA keeps ; 
 
 Long fince the DRYADS left to haunt the 
 Grove, 
 
 And tripping FAUNI ceas'd the Lawns to rove. 
 And cou'd fuch Godlins hear him, they'd retain 
 The Boon, till they might opportunely daign 
 Him ruftic Vengeance in fome pathlefs Clofc, 
 
 Glade, plough'd Land, Greenwood, or the 
 
 prickly Gofs j 
 
 E 2 Where
 
 42 The M OBI AD; or, 
 
 Where might juft (s) Whcrrets> Scats > and 
 WbifterpoopSy 
 
 Reap Satisfaction on the truant Troops, 
 When, (t) Michers, they for Neft, hedge- 
 breaking go, ^ 
 
 Or (#) Oackcub, Haw, Blackberry, Hep, or 
 
 Wou'd venting Bitches Wlxlps ! revenge his 
 
 Smart, 
 
 Or belching Whorefon Brats ! afifert his Part ? 
 Correction, by fome plaguy Left-Hand flung, 
 The Scandal ftrikes abortive off his Tongue. 
 
 O 
 
 Wou'd Geflure threat ? Vindictive Hurls more 
 thick 
 
 Will fcarce afford him Space to brandiOi Stick. 
 And (hou'd it drive, he'd turn'd the Slingers fee 
 Offend, like PARTHIANS, in a Feint to flee. 
 
 So 
 
 (s) WherretS) Scats, &c.] Country Words for Blows, &e. 
 
 (t) Alichers] or Truants. Shakefpear ufes the Word in 
 his HEN, 4. 
 
 (u) Oakcub.l So the People in Exeter call the Chaffer, 
 jVobably from that Infe&'s pitching on Oah, and feeding 
 on the Leaves*
 
 Battle of the Voice. 43 
 
 So rife the Balls pufli on their airy Run, 
 They nearly cloud like rifing Mifts the Sun. 
 Nor guiltlefs of at leaft a bloodlefs Wound 
 The fleet Offences from the Mark rebound. 
 
 Gall bids him bann : To bann affays he vain ; 
 A Dam on Mouth dings back the Curfe again. 
 Confound! and direr Words, were his ; but, footh, 
 
 Gore damms the Sound gufh'd from up-rooted 
 Tooth. 
 
 Back on himfelf the execrable Vote 
 
 Recoils, and wreaks harfh Rigour on his Throat, 
 
 But had he vex'd ELISHA'S dooming Breath, 
 
 Which drove on Pefts lefs nocent mangling 
 
 Death, r ,, , 
 
 [wou d draw,, 
 
 His feller Mood whole GREENLAND'S Bears 
 Nor one devoted Caitiff 'fcape a rending Paw. 
 
 i He weeps, morofeiy weeps j and fee ! o'top 
 His heaving Breaft big Tears of Anger drop. 
 But Tears the Rocky melt not, rather Tears 
 Work their triumphant more offending Jeers. 
 
 As
 
 44 The MO El AD-, or, 
 
 As o'er bis blubber'd Cheeks Eyes bootlefs gleet, 
 
 His Whine for Mercy duns the giggling Street. 
 
 But oh ! th' Inexorable ! were as well 
 
 To (x) Adders, as relenting, urg'd the Yell : 
 
 For as, when Military Felons jaunt 
 
 With Backs flead raw, the long long (y) Lope 
 
 of GAUNT, 
 
 Drums ruff big Rumble, in exerted Rowls, 
 To over-roar their Pity-craving Howls, 
 So Shouts, predominant of Noife, unite 
 To drown the Yawling of the pefter'd Wight. 
 
 Since, then, in Flight alone Afyle he hopes, 
 Through the flagitious Rout he hobbling lopes, 
 
 Before 
 
 (x) Addend The Word, fay Criticks, ought (with the 
 Sfptuagint and the Vulgate) to have been render'd Afp^ 
 which in Pfalm Iviii. is called tdder. and faid to be deaf, 
 and to flop his Ears, fo as not to hearken to the Voice of 
 the Charmer ; it being confidently affured that this Species 
 of Serpents actually fo flop their Ears. 
 
 (y) Gaunt.] Meaning that Martial Punifhment call'd 
 Running the Gaunt lope, as invented or ufed firft at Gaunt, 
 or Ghent, in Flanders.
 
 Battle of the Voice. 45 
 
 Before him tofs his focial Tits in Fright, 
 
 Nor need commanding (z) Rbee ! T^errup ! or 
 
 Struck Flints cut Sparkles from the clinking 
 That hobnails o'er or clouts his ample Heel. 
 The loadfome Clog attempted Hafte impedes, 
 
 And, fliding, baulks th' induftrious clumfy 
 
 Treads. 
 
 [icour ; 
 
 Yet could high Trot the fcamp'ring Bumpkin 
 Hard after would purfuing Mifchief pour ; 
 Nor, till he gain'd the Gate, Relief he'd gain, 
 If, by ill Fate induc'd, no recent Swain 
 Should intercept the Brunt of mafly Rain. 
 
 Beware, raw (a) Pagans ! who, in Morning's 
 Prime, 
 
 Bring Grain or Wood, or fetch manuring Lime, , 
 
 Beware, 
 
 (z) Rhee ! &c.] Thefe are Terms or Sounds us'd by 
 our Country Wood-carriers, &c, to command their Hor- 
 fes by, to go forward, to turn or incline to the Right-hand 
 or Left. Terup, I imagine is as much as if to fay, Troop 
 along ! 
 
 (o) Pagan] This Word in its genuine and original Im-
 
 
 46 The MOBIAD;or, 
 
 Beware, nor enter, though by lawfull Calls, 
 On lawlefs Days, th' inhofpitable Walls, 
 Left Ihould demolilh'd Nofe, loft Tooth or Eye, 
 Your PafTage through oar Civic Highway buy. 
 
 port, means no more than Villager^ or Countryman. But 
 taking it even in its preient common Ufe and fecondary 
 Senfe, might it not have been fomewhat incongruous to have 
 reprefented him as apt to call on the fictitious Rural Gods 
 without making him poetically a Sort of Mifcreant or Hea- 
 then ? Neither is it uncommon to fay of our Country Pa- 
 rimes that they are but a Parcel of Heathens^ though 
 many of them behave more chriftianly than many, or indeed 
 the major Part, of our Citizens. 
 
 End of the Second Canto. 
 
 xtx 
 x*x*x 
 
 CANTO III.
 
 Battle of the Voice. 47 
 
 . CANTO III. 
 
 C E N E s fb perplex'd in juft Aray to bring, 
 And regularly of Confufion fing, 
 Proceed, O MUSE ! in Order, to defcribe 
 The various Actings of th' Eleding Tribe; 
 
 From thofe who marr to thofe who mufter 
 Votes, 
 
 Aid by (a) well-ivifoing, or well wafhing Throats 5 
 Club Voice gratuitous, or, wifer, fell, 
 Aflift by drinking or by drubbing well ; 
 Thofe who, to regulate the Stir, (as far 
 
 As Law direfts) with Staves of Peace make 
 war; 
 
 Or only bribe, or only bet, or bawl, 
 Debate in Houfe, or domineer in Hall. 
 
 F At 
 
 (a) Wcll-toljhlng.l Such as are not Freemen, but as being 
 Wtll-wijhers ( as they call it ) to the Caufe are allow'd of 
 each Side intitled to the S$uill 9 provided they bawl well,
 
 $ The MOB IAD-, or, 
 
 At hand's the Hour when Nymphs in 
 Screams acute 
 
 Deep Entries for the Vent of Milk falute ; 
 
 And PETROCK'S TOW'E^ .with added (b) Head 
 
 fuhlime, _ t . 
 
 [Chime, 
 
 Since Day-fpring firft ftrikes up (c) religious 
 Pfalmy the Notes ; though, haply, in a Pet 
 Did STERN HOLD them to fnip-fnap Mufick fet. 
 
 Shrill (d) Hautboys and the fhriller Trumpet 
 
 greet, 
 
 i 
 Attentive Ears, by Turn, in ev'ry Street j 
 
 \Vhofe 
 
 (b) Added Head.] A fmall Dome, or Turret, being 
 lately built o'top of it for the Reception of another (I think 
 a fixth) little Bell. 
 
 (c) Religious Chime.] At 8, 12, and 4 o'Clock, St- 
 Petrock's Chimes play STERNHOLD'S queer old "Tune of the 
 Fourth Pfalm. 
 
 (d) Hautboys, &c. ] The City Waits and Trumpet, 
 about this Hour of Eight, begin to traverfe the Town, and, 
 after a Flourifh or Tune, their Spokefman, one of them, 
 fummons the Free-men, to the Purport of the Speech here 
 fet forth in Verfe, in thefe following very Words : '* The 
 
 Right Worfhipful - [Here a little PaufeJ " the 
 
 Mayor of this City, [Here another fliort Paufe is made, 
 
 and off they almoft pull their Hats] " The King's Maje- 
 fty's Lieutenant, &c. &c. &c.
 
 . 
 
 Battle of the Voice. 49 
 
 Whofe Warble ceas'd, the Prolocutor hems, 
 Hauks, fpits, and annual Edict thus proclaims : 
 The Worfhipful this City's May'r, " [A 
 
 Paufe 
 
 Moft gracefully here interrupts the Claufe.] 
 " Lieutenant of His Majefty the King," 
 [Here Hands to Hats full mannerly they bring.'] 
 Hereby commands all Free-Men to prepare 
 *' To choofe a new one for th' enfuing Year. 
 " God fave the King ! " Thus toot th' har- 
 monious Band, 
 
 And mouth the Mandate, at each ufual Stand. 
 Glad Routs of Little Ones their Hafte- purfue, 
 As if (e) pide Pipers flrange Inchantment 
 blew. 
 
 F 9. But 
 
 ^ 
 
 (e] Pide Pipers.'] If any are ignorant of the fo fam'd Story 
 of the Rat-charming pied Piper , who drew 131 Children 
 after him out of the Town of HAM EL, in Germany , and 
 with them enter'd a Mountain that open'ci to receive them, 
 they may read it aflerted for real Fadl in VERSTE CAN'S 
 Antiq. chap. 3. [7 now in 1770 add y it may be fern in my 
 Tppogr. Did. Art. HAMEL,]
 
 50 Tbc MOBIAD-, or, 
 
 Yet why that manifold, that mingled (f) 
 
 Who P ? ftttt^&i [Troop? 
 Why jump in Confluence yon' ftruggling 
 
 With prying Eyes, MUSE ! haften to explore 
 Whence the wild Hurry, why fuch early Roar 2 
 
 In Street intitled Higb> by the fam'd (g) Lane 
 
 To VENUS facred, {lands a f acred Fane, 
 
 i 
 
 Though 
 
 (f) Yet why, &c.] Betimes this Morning fome generous 
 Zealots of the Parifh of St. Laurence caus'd a Hoglhead of 
 Cyder, for the Ufe (if it ought not rather to be calj'd Abufe] 
 of the Populace, to be brought, and its Head placed, near 
 the Centre, clofe home to the Church- Wail ; over which, 
 On a Pole fix'd to one of the Buttrices, was difpl?.y'd a blue 
 dtyron far a Flag j whilft on the Tower hung another Aprcn 
 of the fame Colour, adjoining the wither'd Limb of an Oak 
 Tree, ftuck up, according to their Jwgular Cuftom, the 
 Twenty Ninth of May. While the Mob were filthily 
 
 draining the VefTel happen'd the Rev Mr. W 
 
 (Whatchecum) to ride by ; on whom fome of them fell 
 with affronting Language, Hollowings, indecent Gefture, 
 &c &c. 
 
 (g) Lane.] Caftle-Lane in the Highftreft, as infamous 
 "-[formerly] for Drabbing, &c. a.s was ever the SUEURRA 
 of antient ROME, or are Drury-Lane of LONDON, or Dam* 
 nation- Alley (as *tisnieknam'd) of PLYMOUTH. ["Tisfar- 
 from fuch now in 1770, Injlead^ a very fpacious^ commodious * 
 tafy Road ts now made or making jr em the High/I reet up k&me 
 ta th(
 
 Battle of the Voice. 51 
 
 Though graven Images and Shields, ere ivbile 
 Forming a (h) Conduit-houfe, its Porch com- 
 
 f mocks 
 Its Window, beautious, (Thanks to Lime, that 
 
 With Freeftone Afpet red and rugged Rocks) 
 
 To fanciful Obfervers feem to fmile 
 
 That Nature's Works its pafllve Side defile. 
 
 Smile they? But hift! 
 
 Ought we but tell, that (void of (i) guardful 
 
 Pale > [Stale, 
 
 To fend againft lewd Dog's or Drunkard's 
 
 And 
 
 (h) Conduit.] Before this Church heretofore flood a Con- 
 duit, which being pull'd down, of the Stones thereof (carv s d 
 with the Image of CX Elizabeth, as I think it is defign'd to 
 to be underftood, Coats Armoury, &c.) was built the pre- 
 fent Church-Porch. But whether they have been addition- 
 ally confecrated or not I find not in Izacke's Memorials of 
 Exeter. 
 
 (/') Guardful Pale.] It's a /linking Shame that, for Want 
 of proper Palifades or Rails, this Church's Side is made a 
 perfect Jakes of. If this facetioufly fatircal but true De- 
 fcription, &c. fhall provoke proper Perfons to amend the 
 Fault, my End and Drift will be in great meafure anfwer'd, 
 who have not Patience to fee the Houfe of God thus irreve- 
 rently pifs'd upon, and worfe. Procul, o procul e/le
 
 tiff' 
 
 
 The MO El AD-, or, 
 
 And poftern Sinks, by Night, their Stain more 
 
 Here ftands (ah ! why prophan'd ?) a rev'rend 
 Infcrib'd to Saint who dyM, the Legend faith, 
 A (k) grilliaded Martyr of the Faith. 
 The Dons who in this confecrated Dome, 
 When in the Mood, to folemn Duty come, 
 Vow'd, in a gen'rous Ardour of the Heart, 
 Unparallel'd to top Election's Part ; 
 Yet cheaply noble, in Profufion wife, 
 
 Save Charge of Malt, Hops, Brewage, and 
 
 Excife, 
 
 So, at the thrifty Coft of (/) Twelvers Nine, 
 Is Hogfhead bought replete with Apple- Wine. 
 Ere Bakers, to appeafe the maund'ring Maw, 
 Their foremoft Batch of reeking Manchets draw, 
 
 The 
 
 (k) A grilliaded Martyr.'] St. LAURENCE, as The Gulden 
 Legend tells us, being martyr'd on a Sort of Gridiron, or 
 Iron Hurdle, when half broiled, call'd to the Officer who 
 preiided at the Execution, telling him one Side was dreft 
 enough, therefore he might turn him up, and begin to fall to. 
 
 (I) Twelvers .Nint ) The Price of a Hogfhead of Cyder 
 was Nine Shillings or thereabout, at the Time of this Tranf" 
 action.
 
 Battle of tie Voice. 53 
 
 The Orchard's Juice arrives, with fluid Song, 
 And dances as it flafliing jolts along. 
 The liquid Hurliburly in the Butt 
 Portends its troublous Rumble in the Gut, 
 Whofe Lee's foul Pother intimates as plain 
 The deftin'd Perturbation of the Brain. 
 
 The Bells (whofe Match no Carrier's Fore- 
 Horfe e'er 
 
 Could, for capacious Size, prefume to wear) 
 Their tinging Clappers, tripple Clink, imploy, 
 And ding-dong wrangle forth .parochial Joy : 
 The trebble Diicord peals exact the fame 
 To 'wail in doleful Clam a Houfe in Flame; 
 Nor more prepofterous they'd wayward ring, 
 If did they quarrel to builefque the Thing. 
 
 From 
 
 (m) Bells.'] The Tower, built of red roughifh Stone, 
 being much larger than, though fcarce fo high as, many 
 Chimnies,' it's eafy to fuppofe its Three Bells (for there are 
 full fo many) cla(hing make moft excellent Mufick. A 
 Country Boy pafling with his Mother a while fince by, and 
 obferving the Tower, innocently cry'd out, " Look, hok 9 
 Mother , what a gurt [great] Cbimley that little Houfe hath 
 ot ! "
 
 54 *H>e MOBIAD-, or, 
 
 From the rough Tow'r (which late a Ruftic 
 (m) Youth 
 
 Suppos'd a Chimney of enormous Growth) 
 An azure Enfign on a Mopftick waves 
 Its hoftile Flutter, and to Battle braves : 
 It lately had with faften'd Strings embrac'd 
 A (n) purfie Ale-mans' Bulkinefs of Waift. 
 
 Behold ! an Oak's Branch near, whofe wither'd 
 Spray 
 
 With Verdure fhone laft Twenty-Ninth of May. 
 Might not the Change the Patron's Gall provoke, 
 His fprightly (o) Laurel for the faded Oak ? 
 No ', Him delights fuch Badge of fturdy Love, 
 That to (p) APOLLO'S adds the Tree of JOVE. 
 This Pennant fcouls Defiance. But below 
 Its brother Pennant flaps inviting Show, 
 
 The 
 
 (m) See the Note juft preceding. 
 
 (n) 1 think the dropfical dleman TOM JoiCl.] 
 
 (o) Laurei.] The Etymology of LAURENTIUS is Lau- 
 rwn tenent, i. e. Holding tbr Laurel j as the prefatory In- 
 trodu&ion of his Story in the Legenda Aurea gives it. 
 
 ($) Apollo'tTree) &c.j The La urel is facred to APOLLO, 
 as is the O*k to JUPITER.
 
 Battle of the Voice. 55 
 
 -The hemm'd blue Linen, fix'd toButtrice, flys, 
 And looks a-drying hung to Strangers Eyes : 
 But errs the Guefs ; for lo ! its Signal's plain, 
 To fwill and leak, and fwill and leak again. 
 
 Beneath this Poll, which, ftay'd, the Banner 
 flays, 
 
 The Cafk an Angle of the Prop inlays : 
 Snug at the Centre of the Temple's Wall 
 The Veffel's Head is help'd, or helps, from Fall. 
 Oh ! that we could the knotty Symbol cleave, 
 And obvious to the Light the Meaning leave, 
 If it implies That Toping, in a fort, 
 Should prop the Church, or from Her have 
 
 Support ! 
 
 But we, dilemma'd, and in Search too flow, 
 Permit to thofe fage Emblemifts to know, 
 Who thus ordain'd the Manage, what in Mind 
 By fucli odd Difpofition they defign'd. 
 The Mob of clear Pretenfion rife draw near, 
 And fpring to feize Intoxication's Share. 
 
 G Th f
 
 56 Tbe MOB 1AD-, or, 
 
 Th* increafing Many burn with rival Thirft, 
 And new Intruders elbow back the firft. 
 The Faucet's (q) Regent (for, as in the Eaft, 
 Of Old were chofen Rulers of the Feaft, 
 One governs here the Tap) rifks now the Fate 
 Of the (r) fquafh'd Steward at SAMARIA'S Gate. 
 Matrons (s) of TRULLA'S Kin, in Rags, among 
 The bowfing Tumult, For Blue! fquealing, 
 
 throng. 
 
 Girls, with Boy Tyroes for the Caufe, wedge in 
 The medley Quaffers, and unlearn to fpin, 
 Who, early thus taught Modefty to lofe, 
 Scarce in their Teens feek Bufinefs in the Stews. 
 
 Imagine 
 
 (q) Faucet's Regent.] One Lewis, a Journeyman of Mr 
 Wills i Chair-maker, was appointed to draw the Liquor, or 
 at leaft to fee that no Wafte was made thereof, that is to 
 fay that none but the right-colour' d Mob devilify'd them-* 
 felves therewith. 
 
 (r) Squajh'd Steward. 1 See II. Kings, vii, 19, 20. 
 
 (s) Trulla."] The Virago, or mafculine filthy Jade, 
 brought in by the Poet among the Mob at Bear-baiting in 
 Hudibras. There have been feveral of them too much en- 
 courag'd here.
 
 Battle of the Voice. 57 
 
 Imagine now that Point of Day when 
 (t) JAMES 
 
 f ' - -'/ *>>>i *> f I 1 -* - * >, >. -^ 
 
 By Bell's Ring warns devout-and-dainty Dames, 
 There fcarce are Sixty Minutes more allow'd 
 For humble Worfhip to be trick'd up proud : 
 
 The Point when, licking Butter from their 
 Bread, 
 
 In clean Frocks neat to School are Children led j 
 
 Whilft fav'ry Steams Nofe to folicite rife 
 
 / 
 
 From the fupp'd Liquor of cry'd Mutton-Pies, 
 And lufcious Clamours oft* regale the Ears 
 With Hot bak'd Apples ! or Hot-fmoaking Pears ! 
 
 When (u] LORD SINPIOUS, wrung with penal 
 
 Gout, r , , , , 
 
 [rubb d out, 
 
 Since Houfhold Pray'r, which had Old Score 
 G 2 Had 
 
 (t) James.] JAMES MORTJMORE, the honeft old Bell- 
 toller and Chime-ringer. The Time here by Circumftances 
 defcribed fignifies it's being now Nine o'Clock. 
 
 (u) Lord Sinpious.] The nicknam'd Lord at South with- 
 out. Father W, I remember, has among his printed Say- 
 ings " Either Prayer will make a Man give overjinning, or 
 Sin will make him give over praying." But this praying 
 and fwearing, godly and wicked, heavenly and wordly 
 minded Inftance helps to confirm that there's fcarce a gene- 
 ral Rule without an Exception*
 
 58 The MOB I AD-, or y 
 
 Had let a Thoufand Execrations fly, 
 And ran anew in deep Debt to the Sky. 
 
 Now fcatter'd Parties j Drove confronting 
 Drove, 
 
 With thwartive Eyes adverfe in Mixture move. 
 Here Helliers ftraggle in a lazy Shape, 
 As, flouching, they with Hands in Pockets trape, 
 Or thruft below their Aprons, fplam'd with 
 
 White, 
 
 Patch'd, furl'd, or dangling clouterly to Sight. 
 Crifpinians, flippant, though of fturdy Air, 
 More blithe, and with a galliard Pace, go there. 
 There hie who drew from (x) TUBAL-CAIN 
 
 their Race, 
 
 [Face, 
 
 With Copper Brightnefs glows each well-ale'd 
 There limp grim MULCIBER'S befmutted Kind, 
 Their forgy Throats with quenchlefs Sparkles 
 
 1* M 
 
 v..v<>:!cf gsoccs : .- <' ^.-j'.lww&t t .^ ; 
 
 Here 
 
 ' r <l 3.'J?I " -.-* -j-jyo i**3 -ii 
 
 (x) faba I- Cain.] He is faid to be an faftruttor of every 
 Artificer in Brafs t &C, Gen, jy. 22., .' ,, 

 
 Battle of the Voice. $g 
 
 Here Carpenters mew Backs of ample Square, 
 Like knurly Beams rough -hewn of Oaken Ware. 
 There Barbers hop with Brows knit politic ; 
 
 Here (y) Mafons, ruddy as their Cheeks were 
 Brick. 
 
 Combers, in Veft by Ufe refin'd, and Oil 
 All fplendid, fhuffle to the lov'd Turmoil. 
 Here tinclur'd Hands diftinguim. thofe who Dye; 
 There Fullers feud, perfum'd with Chamber Lye. 
 The greafy Frock of Candle-dipper there 
 Infpires near Noftrils with a fatter Air; 
 Whilft to aFeaftthe fnufPd grofs Odour craves 
 
 Our Houmold Vermin from their Planchent 
 
 Caves, 
 
 That, if befriended not by Pufs, their Foe, 
 Gnawn (z] HATTO'S Fate he'd, haply, undergo. 
 Taylors, now each a Man, with nimble Trip, 
 Aping a jauntee Mein, there, fwagg'ring fkip, 
 
 Whofe 
 
 (y) Mafons. ] Mere Bricklayers are in Exeter ftyl'd Majons. 
 
 (z) Hatto's Fate.] HAT TO, a vile Archbifhop of Mentz 
 
 is faid, or rather forg'd^ to have been eaten up alive by 
 
 Rats, a Judgment on him for calling the Poor Rats, &c. &c.
 
 60 Tfe M O B IA-D > or, 
 
 Whofe Hearts feel fcarce more aggrandizing 
 
 Swells I, - [Bells, 
 
 When their hir'd (a) Text conforts the hireling 
 
 Or while 6n fJ Bridge at IRON-DISH they (land 
 In Vifit to their own wall'd Gallows-Land. 
 
 Scarce could they wear Looks more fupcrbly 
 fierce, 
 
 Was each a BOWHAY or a Bully ARSE. 
 Gad Bakers there, whofe yfweaty Caps, beneath 
 Hats meal'd and dough' d, their fcorch'd brown 
 
 Temples wreath. 
 Here Flocks of Weavers, who this Morn difdain 
 
 Their Beechen Bowls of Broath new vamp'd to 
 
 drain, 
 
 Keen- 
 
 (a) Text.] On Mtdfumnvr-Day^ when the Exonian Tay- 
 hrs chufe a Mafter of their Company, they fignalize them- 
 fclves, beyond other ordinary Corporations, by hiring a Ser- 
 mon to be preached before them, [of which one heretofore 
 had the Text Let him that bath Jhlen flea! no more y and 
 another Yet a Remnant Jball be fav'd]-- and the Cathe- 
 dral Bells to ring all Day. 
 
 (b) Bridge.] The Burial-Yard of Heavitree -Gallows be- 
 longs to our Company of Taylors to take care of, for which 
 a Bit of Land was bequeath'd to 'em. Once a Year they 
 walk out in a Body to vifit it, when on the Bridge, at a Place 
 call'd Ircn-DiJh they tarry Come Time, treating each PafTer- 
 by with a Mug of Ale.
 
 Battle of the Voice. 61 
 
 Keen-ey'd, alert, clank (as they huddled walk, 
 All Tongue, no Ear) harfh Vehemence of Talk: 
 
 LikeMafh of Jabber flooded (c) EXE beftows, 
 
 When ruffled me o'er rugged HEAD-WERE 
 flows. 
 
 Grum Catchpoles, arm'd with Oak- Plants, 
 
 huge of Knob, 
 
 & ; cl "(fiw 3t'a 
 
 Indulging Vacance from a Harpy Jobb, 
 Among the reft with itching Claws refort, 
 And with a mingled Terror dam the Sport. 
 
 Thofe too who drive th' o'erloaden Sledge ad. 
 vance 
 
 With hagard and outragious Countenance, 
 Whofe Lam Lam Lam incarnate Fiends difplay 
 On the hard, cruel, killing (d) Steep of Kay. 
 
 -Slaves 
 
 (c) Exe.] The River on which Exettr is fituate, and 
 from which that City derives its Name. Htad-Were is the 
 Name given to the uppermoft of the Two above the Water- 
 Engine. 
 
 (d) Steep of Kay.} Kay- Hill. England is faid to be a 
 Hell for Horfes. Jf fo, this Hill may be call'd Kay-Hell. 
 Hereon a Perfon of tender Humanity, and a fympathifing 
 
 Goodnature,
 
 62 *ttx MOBIAD, or, 
 
 {e) Slaves of the Shambles, with more ugly Low 
 Than ere they learn'd of madded Ox or Cow, 
 Loud, fwift, and foul, as Torrents roaring down 
 
 O'er (f) Stfpcote-bill, that rage Exc-Bridgt to 
 drown ; 
 
 Where-ere the fanguinary Rufiains roam, 
 The Jaws of licens'd Slaughter feems to foam. 
 
 But why is thus Detail in Special made ? 
 In Sum, we fee large Draughts from evYy Trade, 
 As they in feparate Brigades go by, 
 Or jumbled mifcellaneous in Allie. 
 Street, Lane, and Alley their Contingents fend, 
 
 And ev'ry Tap-Houfe yawns for Dividend. 
 
 Deft 
 
 Goodiutore, may too often be {buck with Horror. Surely 
 it were not very difficult to evince, by. Rcafon and Scrip- 
 ture, dut the harden'd Wretches who ufe God's Creatures 
 with Cracky, or bfh them on to Performances beyond their 
 Strength, fhould expect to anfwer for it hereafter, as for 
 Sins unnatural. [Tbis Hill bath teem mole a little merefrmc- 
 
 (*) Slaves, &c. Journeymen Butchers, fuch as JJbfy, &c. 
 
 (f) Sttp&te-bilL] To the Weft of this City is a Defcent 
 cafi'd Step-aU-KUy to which as die Butcherow leads, the 
 Guts, Blood, Litter, Ordure, and a Variety of Naftinefs 
 from die ShafnMc^ are, in hard Showers of Rain, rapidly 
 carried over it into die River,
 
 Battle of the Voice. 63 
 
 Deft Managers, betimes, with fearchful Care, 
 Stnoak Who are Who, as fundry Signs declare, 
 As cunning Spies to reconnoitre fcout, 
 And fteal Advice what lurks the Foe about. 
 
 Now Chiefs of haughty Bofom fupple ftoop 
 Ev'n to the Jakes to angle for a Dupe, 
 Who for a Wheadle will invert his Coat, 
 Or for a Promife proflitute his Throat. 
 The Mafter-Tradefmen courtly condefcend 
 To call a fimple Working-Man my Friend, 
 Familiar fit, and pledge, by touching Pots, 
 Whom they have fkunn'd for Scoundrels, 
 Scrubs, and Sots. 
 
 A tatter'd Gaffer is accofted, Sur ! 
 
 And Shabs are Neighbours own'd without De- 
 mur. 
 
 Druggift to Pounder tips obliging Wink, 
 And Mercer afks his Errand-Man to drink. 
 Grocer on Porter's Arm lays fweet'ning Pat, 
 And Draper to a Taylor touches Hat. 
 
 H Ao 

 
 64 ?& MOB IAD; or, 
 
 A Small - Ware - Man extends his plumper 
 
 Hand 
 
 To make a Pedlar's ; And, upwheadled grand, 
 A Tinker to a Goldfmith cover'd goes ; 
 And Merchant -greets Japanner of his Shoes. 
 Nay, Parifti Clarks, who rev'rend Surplice wear, 
 And whofe Ajent authentic renders Pray'r, 
 
 Whom (box'd in hallowM Defk, full Jole by 
 
 Cheek 
 
 With Parfon) Learn'd in Look, demurely ileek, 
 Reading a clear Half-Title to the Gown, 
 We muft (g) Inferior Clergy ! duely own j 
 Ev'n Clarks lay by their State, and Sextons join, 
 As they co-equal tope, co-equal Chat and Coin. 
 STARTUP, magnificent of Thought, though He 
 Adorns in Pew Chief -Warden's big Degree, 
 His wonted Infolence forgoes a while, 
 And nods a Congee with a lureing Smile. 
 
 CELSUS 
 
 (g) Inferior Clergy.} So a certain Clark in this City ftyl'd 
 himfelf and his brother Clarks. We (fays he) of the inferior 
 Clergy can, forne of us, read better than our Mafters.
 
 Battle of the Voice. 6 c 
 
 ^5 
 
 V 
 
 CELSUS the folemn, whofe Plutonian Frown 
 Looks fupercilious on mere Mortals down, 
 AfTumes a Spice of almoft civil Guife, 
 And bears a Dam of Sweetnefs in his Eyes. 
 (b) PUMILIO, whofe all-penetrating Sight 
 Through the proverbial Millftone meets the 
 
 Light, 
 
 Great on the Bench as HUDIBRAS is fung, 
 (Where, formidable for a doubty Tongue, 
 With Him not (i) ABEL on the Stage com- 
 pares 
 
 In bearing up th' Importance of Affairs) 
 Not wanted yet at Council-board to fpeech, 
 Sits clofe Companion with fome vulgar Breech. 
 Ev'n bulky (k) TUBER, whofe vafl Stomach 
 
 fwells 
 Much as the Fable of the Paddock tells, 
 
 H 2 And 
 
 (h) PUMILIO, alias Dandiprat. 
 (/') ABEL in the Play call'd The Committee, &c. 
 (k) TUBER. [/ knew this Perfon doubtlefs in 1737, but 
 forget him now in 1770.3
 
 66 We MOBIAD-, or, 
 
 And more the Cloak, fo late put on, dilates 
 Than an High-Mighty of the Belgic States, 
 Abate an Inch of bloted Grandeur can, 
 Nor look immenfer than an Alderman. 
 
 Though thefe Patricians fcatter Vows to fight 
 Like Roman Tribunes for Plebeian Right, 
 And promifTory Patriots become 
 As popular Love-winning ABSALOM, 
 Yet MOBS true-fleel'd and ftomachful reject 
 The ftale Cajole, nor will defert their Seel. 
 Defert their Se& ? As foon a Jilt mall rap 
 A flufh'd new Cully for a fleec'd old Chap. 
 As foon the Spark mail keep Connubial Vows 
 
 Who makes, for Pelf, a Icathfome Crone his 
 Spoufe : 
 
 Curmudgeons hate of free Regales to tafle, 
 And Girls in pamper'd Idlenefs be chaite : 
 They Horns efcape who Youth at Sev'nty wife; 
 And Vintners Riches with their Grandfons 
 thrievc : 
 
 Upftarts
 
 Battle of the Voice. 67 
 
 Upftarts in Office more obliging grow, 
 And on the Outed Proofs of Love beftow. 
 CLODIUS leave Wenching, to oblige his Wife, 
 And TABID Toping to preferve his Life : 
 
 As foon fhall (I) PHILL the pridelefs ceafe to 
 
 tell ri c .. 
 
 [befell, 
 
 What Things when he Head- Steward was 
 Or what Events took place in fome great Hour, 
 Whilft dignify'd He Chair of Governour. 
 Defert their Sec"l ? What ! turn a Recreant ? 
 No 3 fooner be incurr'd of Bread the Want. 
 No; they, tenacious of their proper Dyes, 
 Propos'd Cockades of alien Hue defpife, 
 And, firm as Rocks, by Tides ne'er overborn, 
 In Love of Privilege, known Welfare fcorn. 
 
 Nay, fome, more moody, their own Matters 
 beard, 
 
 And pirn at being from Imploy cafhier'd ; 
 
 111 
 
 (/) PHILL. PHILL BASTARD, who in all Companies 
 lugg'd in fomething to fpeak of his having been one of the 
 annual Stewards, or Bailiffs ; and the fame with regard of 
 having had his Turn of being Governor among the incorpo- 
 rated Guardians of the Poor.
 
 68 the MOB IAD-, or, 
 
 111 Names retort, and dam Upbraidings by, 
 And Serjeants menac'd to the Back defy. 
 
 Thus flout ST. PETES .elevates his Tow'rs, 
 Expos'dtoThunder, Stormy Blafts and Show'rs ; 
 But flands them all unmov'd, and braves the Sky 
 To fpend its Rage in conftant Battery 5 
 Seems but to whittle at the Wind j the Rain" 
 Precipitates with Scorn j and with Difdain 
 Hears the wroth Temped: beat his founding j 
 Plain. 
 
 Ale-foakers now exert their leachy Skill 
 Quick to induce the (m) Running of the Quill. 
 
 Shall 
 
 (m) Running of the Quill] When the Rabble have Liquor 
 given 'em before, at, or after Elections, they fay the >uill 
 runs at fuch or fuch a Houfe ; and they getting themfelves 
 drunk by it they call Quilling, or drinking upon the )uill, 
 I conjecture it had is Origin from a Quill's being us'd for 
 the Liquor's running through from the Mefhing- Vat in Brew- 
 ing. Nor is it indeed impoffible but a <>uill was heretofore 
 us'd here inftead of a modern Brafs Cock, or Wooden Fau- 
 cet ; we frill faying Put the Jug, &c. to Pen, when we'd 
 fignify the having it run from the Hogfhead immediately into 
 the Jug.
 
 Battle of the Voice. 69 
 
 Shall to be freely drunk the Right be loft, 
 That beft of annual Rights Shab-Freemenboaft ? 
 Rather come on no free Election more, 
 Nor ev'n the prided Privilege to roar ! 
 For Parties both, amidft their Jarrs, unite 
 In Claim to mare the Bacchanalian Right. 
 No Quill run ? Rather Flood-fwoln EXE away 
 Run with the I/land Malt-houfe to the Sea ! 
 Let (n) Bangs on Stalls, and jollierWickednefs,*! 
 
 Hoots, Drabbing, Fiddling, Swearing, Cavils, I 
 
 ceafe, r 
 
 [Prince of Peace. | 
 
 And Brabbles, on the Morn when born the/, 
 Yea rather let each new-chofe May'r detain 
 
 The City's Buckets ; let the Butchers chain 
 
 Their 
 
 (n) Bangs, &c.] The Chriftmas-Day Morning is moft 
 fcandaloufly abufed here by the Particulars above-mentioned, 
 and a hellim Variety of other Wiekednefs and Outrage. 
 Mean while, (ome accompanied with Fiddles, others with- 
 out them, rove about the City, and under Windows fing 
 Carols ef Chrift, God, and the Holy-Ghoft, and fo make 
 them in Deed the Song of the Drunkard. And for fuch 
 impudent Prophanenefs they are rewarded, having not only 
 Cbriftmas Drink, but Money to be more drunk with, given 
 'em. [But fuch fcandalous Night-Mowings, &c. &c. have 
 of later Years been much fupprefs'd and nearly quajh'd.]
 
 70 The MOBIAD-, or, 
 
 Their Maftives up, in Spite, to difannul 
 That glorious Law of worry mg a Bull ; 
 And fo preventing mortal Colds by Sweat, 
 Or Colds as killing by (o) Aflaults of Wet) 
 Reduce the wonted Flufli of Deadly Trade 
 Of thofe who wield the Peftle or the Spade. 
 
 But oh ! in vain they fkilful Mumpings ply ; 
 For yet the Chiefs their Running ^uill deny j 
 And Tetters, here and there, flruck up, fuffice 
 But juft a heart'ning Quart or fo to raife. 
 
 Yet Patience, Soakers ! and forbear to dun : 
 Quills mall as freely as the Conduit run. 
 As ponded Mill-Brooks, free'd of Bar, redeem 
 Loft Time by gufhing in a rapid Stream, 
 Anon, in Seafon, though Stagnation now 
 Witholds the Current, mall Ale-Rivers flow. 
 
 What 
 
 (o ) WetJ\ The Butchers, &c. who are annually permit- 
 ted to beat a Bull (a Diverfion which too many of our tender- 
 hearted fine Dames feem to delight in ) before the Mayor's 
 Door, throw Buckets or Hats-full of Water on all they can 
 reach, &c. See another Note on the Occafion in Canto iv.
 
 Battle of the Void. 71 
 
 What though ALPHEUS (/>) hides awhile from 
 
 View, 
 
 And feems to bid his upper Banks Adieu, 
 Frefh, frefh, in Vigour, he breaks forth again, 
 And vifibly flows jocund to the Main. 
 
 (p) Alpheus."] This River doth run quite through Arcd- 
 dia, Elis, and along the City of Pifa ; foon after which it 
 is fwallowed up in the Earth. From thence it is fuppos'd 
 to run, by a fubterraneous Channel, under the Sea, without 
 mixing with the Salt Water, and fo to pafs quite into Sici\y y 
 where it mixes itfelf with the Fountain Aretbufa^ near the 
 City of Syracufe ; infomuch that any Thing that is thrown 
 into it on the Elis Side is faid to come out of the Fountain 
 above-named. Vid. Diod. Paufan. et al. Hence the poetic 
 Fiction of Alpkeus's Love to Arethufa. Univ. Hift. Vol. ii. 
 pa. (fol. Edit.) 406. Note (b). 
 
 End of the Third Canto. 
 
 CANTO IV.
 
 7 2 Ik MO El AD-, or, 
 
 T 5 " * ' ' -L. * * i 
 
 i30M>^-OOOI*4^00W-^000ifwOQOff..*000-t0^ 
 
 (.. Id 
 
 CANTO IV. y . ; 
 
 >Y this, where Houfes, whelving, Houfes 
 meet, 
 
 And vault with Beetle-brows a Shelving Street, 
 Where flout (a) St. PETER, on the Corner Stall, 
 Props the impending Edifice from Fall, 
 The lufcious Smoke of Furmity an Hour 
 Had tempted errant Younglings to devour. 
 By this had Rural Blowzes made their Rounds, 
 OnSteeds-and-Panniers, in the licensed Bounds, 
 
 Whom grudg'd Half-penny's Fee admits to 
 
 fcream r ^ 
 
 [Cream, 
 
 Milk, Cabbage, Apples, Butter, Eggs, and 
 
 And (b) OTHO made their Malediction's I 
 Theme. 
 
 (a) St. Peter 9 &c-] Meaning Northgate-flreet. 
 
 (b) Otbo.} Mr. OTHO CHANNON, the Market-Mart, 
 and my honeft Kinfman.
 
 Battle of the Voice* 73 
 
 By this had funky (c] JENKIN, Friends prefume, 
 Of Pipe the tenth whiff 'd the white curling 
 
 Fume. ri 
 
 [harangued 
 
 By this had///,) SKINDLY through ten Streets 
 With lewd loud Scandal, and been voted hang'd. 
 By this hiftoric SNARL thrice tenthly fpake 
 His Faculty of Pronenefs to miftake. 
 By this did SORDID, Lip-bewraying, fluff 
 His Noftrils with his fiftieth Gripe of Snuff. 
 
 I 2 By 
 
 (c) Jenkin.] JENKIN WILLIAMS, the honeft Welch 
 Landlord of our Eaftern White Hart Inn, fo tight a Friend 
 to the Revenue, that is, fuch a perpetual Smoaker, that he 
 feems, in fome Meafure, as if he fubfifted partly by it : 
 For which Reafon Wags have afiign'd to fuch his Smoke the 
 Epithet of vital. He is an early Stirrer, and flicks the 
 Tube in his Jaws, as foon as (if not before) he fteps out of 
 Bed ; from whence he fcarce ever plucks it but to fill. 
 Suppofing him to have gat up, this Morning of extraordinary 
 Bufmefs, between Five or Six, we can't in Confcience al- 
 low him lefs than his tenth Pipe by Ten o' Clock. An hy- 
 perbolical Fellow once effer'd to maintain, by a moderate 
 Computation, he had Fire enough in his Pipe during the 
 common Six Days, if collected into a Body, to boil his Pot 
 o' Sunday. 
 
 (d) Stinky.] The moft noify and moft fcandalous of 
 R-fc-s, whofe chief or only Delight was induftrioufly to 
 fpread Defamation, falfe or true, through the Town. 

 
 74 fbe M B 1A D j or, 
 
 By this hail (e) CHAMPION, like TITHONUS* 
 bleft 
 
 In early making off unhealthy Reft, 
 Had on ten Benches try^l whofe Ale was beft- 
 By this had the Ecclefiaflic Chime 
 Proclaim'd of Forenoon -Pray'r the inftant Time; 
 
 Whilft Nymphs not prink'd-up with Ball Airs 
 to pray 
 
 Sat tipping Slander with their Pagan Tea. 
 
 By this> another Morn, had (f) Drum been 
 
 heard [Guard, 
 
 With martial Beat to chear the marching 
 
 Nor were the Warriour Wags array'd to play, 
 In Garrifon kept fafe from Warfare's Way, 
 And mock theTown-Imployment of the Day. 
 
 But 
 
 (e) Champion,"} Mr. CHAMPION, of the Swan Inn. 
 He is truly defcribed in the Vcrfe. 
 
 (/) Drum.] Precifely at Ten was wont a Party of the 
 Regiment quarter'd here to march to the Caftle, to mount 
 and relieve the Guard. But, of late, fmce Mobbing run 
 fo high, the Commanding Officers, to prevent the Soldiery's 
 interfering with, or being drawn into, the Squabbles of the 
 Town, have us'd to order 'em betimes into the faid Cattle ; 
 
 where 
 
 -~-
 
 Bdttle of the Voice. 75 
 
 But whence that Hurricane of Voice we 
 
 hear ? r 
 
 [appear ! 
 
 See ! Crowds in Deluge through EASTGATE 
 The Yellow (g) GREEKS with vafl Huzza 
 
 rufli in ; 
 
 And Blues look bluer at the dauntful Din. 
 For lefs intrepid and fecure of Fame 
 The gen'rous ROMANS of the () FABIAN Name, 
 
 March'd 
 
 where being confined all Day they have us'd to divert them- 
 felves and Officers with a Mock-Eletfion of their own, 
 which they have fometimes done very comically, one Party 
 being for the Time reputed Blue, the other Yellow^ &c. 
 
 (s) Greeks.'] So we Surname, I know not why, the rug- 
 ged Inhabitants of St. Sidwelh. The Title feems to have 
 arifen from their contending with the City at Foot-ball, &c. 
 they being call'd Greeks as making the Invafion, and the 
 Townfmen perhaps Trojans in defending their Ground, 
 fcff. 
 
 (b) Fabian.] Near about the Year of Rome 280. Cafo 
 Fab'tus and T. Virginlus being Confuls, the Plebeians refufing 
 to inlift to ferve againft the Hetrurians^ who invaded their 
 Country, the Fabii, to the Number ot 306, with about 
 4000 Vaffals and Clients, generoufly engag'd to fecure the 
 Frontiers againft the Enemy. They march'd gallantly 
 through the Gate Carmentalh ; which became famous there- 
 by ; but which, on their being to a Man cut off, was after- 
 wards nam'd Porta fcelerata, or the accurfed Gate. Sec 
 Qvid Faft. 1. ii. Carmenth portx dettira^ &c.
 
 76 f fbe MOB IAD; or, 
 
 March'd through their fam'd CARMENTAL 
 
 GATE, to go 
 And quell the Infults of th f HETRURIAN Foe. 
 
 *=- 
 As under (i) SHALLDOWN'S cliffy Coaft, 
 
 where TEING rn .. 
 
 [Spring, 
 
 With Brine confounds, at Ebb, her fweeter 
 When NEPTUNE drives the mobbing Flood 
 
 along, 
 
 The liquid Ridges turbulently throng, 
 Waves hilling on the Backs of Waves fwell high, 
 And on the craggy Upland throw the Spry, 
 Then in her Bay ufurp the lefTning Strands, 
 And roll an Ocean o'er the fhelly Sands, 
 So the rough Populace, in-gufh'd, amain 
 Extends on each Side of the paved Plain. 
 
 Three 
 
 (i) Shalldown] A little Fifhing-Town, between which 
 and Telgnmoutb runs the River Ting, or 'feing ; or rather 
 where that River difembogues. The Defcription of the 
 Place and of the Tide's flowing there is exa&ly natural, 
 Whether or no it be artfully enough poetical. Nor, we hum- 
 bly prefume, is the Simile or Comparifon quite unapt.
 
 Battle of the Voice. 77 
 
 Three ftanch Chief-Mafters of the Woolly 
 
 Woof, 
 
 Unfliock'd by Bankruptcies, and Fortune-proof, 
 Chearily gruff, whofe Looks of Bus'nefs charm, 
 Grace in the Front the rugged rapid Swarm. 
 
 The Stretch of Rabble, Twelve a-breaft, 
 
 draws nigh j 
 
 And (k) HADDY ! HADDY ! rattles to the Sky. 
 The honeft Vogue afcends Heav'n's fmiling 
 
 Frame, 
 
 Which in approving Ecchoes bids the Name; 
 And ever, as the duteous Clamours foar, 
 Methinks fome Angel crys, Encore ! Encore ! 
 On t' other hand, from divers Quarters led, 
 See, growing Squadrons wide FORESTREET 
 o'erfpread. 
 
 Envy 
 
 (k) Noddy.] Mr. Haddy, who had difcharg'd the Office 
 of High-Sheriff, and all the inferiour, with Reputation, and 
 was one of the Candidates at a former Ele&ion to the May- 
 oralty, was expe&ed, and extremely wifh'd, to have been 
 again fet up.
 
 78 tte MO El AD-, or, 
 
 Envy and Emulation {harp incite 
 
 By ang'ring Poflures to denounce the Fight, 
 
 The Mouthy Fight and more. With mutual 
 Grin 
 
 They, intricate, to fkirmifh ftrait begin. 
 Alternate Vollies of adverfe Acclaim 
 To pierce with miflive Daunt, bombarding, aim. 
 A Hundred Throats club Energy of Bawl 
 For Blue ! j a Hundred for the Tellow ! fquawl. 
 
 O'er the pounch'd Lip Boars foaming Dudgeon 
 fumes, 
 
 And Dragons Malice hifTes through the Gums. 
 Hands clapp'd on Buttocks Fifts lift braving dare, 
 And mettled Skips againft bold Leaps declare. 
 Brow-beatings glum terrific Frowns oppofe. 
 
 To cope flam'd Cheeks the fparkling Eye-ball 
 glows. 
 
 At pointing Fingers levell'd Fingers rage, 
 And Mouths awry with fnarling Jaws engage. 
 High-waving Hats with Hats high-flourim'd vie, 
 Shouts anfwer Shouts, and Hobs! to Habs! reply. 
 
 Vile
 
 Bdtth of the Voice. jg 
 
 Vile Names, like Stinkpots, though to Truth 
 
 unknown, 
 Are, interchang'd, upon each other thrown : 
 
 So is by Wolves afperfive Urine flung, 
 And the Bonafus battles with his Dung. 
 
 In Parts remote the Riffraff", Men and Boys, 
 With leaning Ears drink the infectious Noife ; 
 And, vainly wim'd the Field's Remove, to mare 
 The hideous Pleafures of the Strife more near, 
 At once Commotion from each Outfkirt rolls, 
 And dark Defiles pour out new-mufter'd Sholes. 
 With trudging Speed their Feet Impatience 
 
 wings, 
 And, fpringing, to the Camp of Difcord brings^ 
 
 So, oft', in Bodies, when difpos'd to jar 
 The Blood impure, and peccant Humours war, 
 They from th* extremer Parts in Conflux join 
 Beneath the Arm, or centre in the Groin 5 
 
 K Where
 
 8o lie MOB IAD-, or, .- 
 
 Where, bubbling fierce within a Bily Urn, 
 Appeafelefs they a new Corruption churn, 
 And, wrathful, in vulcanian Tumours burn. 
 
 Bick'ring in Difarray the Pow'rs they find, 
 Arm'd as with Stings of Hornets in the Mind. 
 ENTHUSIASM, the hotteft Fiend on Earth, 
 Hell-born, though it pretends a heav'nly Birth, 
 Wayward impels the Shock j lewd DISCORD 
 
 leads, 
 And mad SEDITION bellows at their Heads. 
 
 As Dog (I've feen) on Travel, flung by 
 Want, 
 
 Arriv'd at Inn, with gnawing Hunger gaunt, 
 (And by Experience taught a juft Defpair 
 Of his lefs faithful Matter's duteous Care) 
 In Kitchen, cat'ring, fnatch an Offal Feaft, 
 Or ravin on a Bone, his hard Repafl ! 
 And, bold by Famine, diligent beftir, 
 Spight of th' inhofpitable menial Cur, 
 
 Shews
 
 Battle of the Voice. 81 
 
 Shews Teeth prepar'd for Teeth, and Yells for 
 Howls, 
 
 So^vehement, fo greedy of the Fray, 
 
 Rufh the new Comers to th* imbattled Way: 
 
 Hahs! quick engage with Hahs I a fkrew'd 
 
 Grimace 
 
 Outdares the GORGON of a wrefted Face ; 
 The rival Buftlers maze a Change of Ground, 
 
 And each Side, foaming, thunder Sound ! for 
 Sound ! 
 
 As, when atDiftance flashing Sulphurs growl, 
 And to the Down their grumbled Terrors rowl, 
 The confcious Shepherd, of experienc'd Ear x 
 Quakes left the growing Menace burft too near, 
 The Suburbs round, drain'd of their variousDin, 
 Hear, making, the collected Roar within. 
 
 But, fudden Awe ! the trembling Streets 
 
 refound, 
 
 As though infernal Temped fliock'd the Ground ! 
 K 2 And
 
 82 The MO Bl AD ; or, 
 
 And fee the Caufe : Six fmoaking Steeds 
 approach, 
 
 With lafh'd-up Fury whifking on a Coach : 
 How hurricanian fwift K-No fleeter Kind 
 Are father* d, in the ILIAD, on the WIND. 
 So glow their working Noflrils, as they run, 
 As if the fiery Courfers of the SUN 
 Wedded terreflrial Mares, with proud Defign 
 To raife a Stud, half mortal, half divine. 
 
 Back ! back ! unfwift of Foot ! His Life's at 
 flake 
 
 Who dares acrofs the Canal Refuge take : 
 No more the JEHU would his Gallop flay 
 Than (/) TULLIA, limp'd his Father in the 
 Way. 
 
 Lefs 
 
 (I) TULLIA, &c.] Learned and Well-read Perfons need 
 no Mote here ; yet for the fake of lefs informed others, 'tis 
 hoped they'll not abhor one, tho' not of the fhorteft Size. 
 TARQUIN furnam'd the proud, Son-in-law to SERVIUS 
 TULLIUS, King of Rome y indicated thereto by his execra- 
 ble Wife, the above TULLIA, confpired againft his faid 
 Father-in-law, and by Aflaflination murther'd him in the 
 
 Street.
 
 Battle of the Voice. 83 
 
 Lefs rapid rattling are Stage-Drivers known, 
 Of Cattle oftentatious, through a Town. 
 Upward he threatful Courfe to Hotel takes, 
 
 And all along each lofty Manfion fhakes. 
 
 \ 
 
 Now 'ftablim'd Churches fancy Perils more 
 Than (harp (m) SACHEVERAI. defcry'd of Yore. 
 The fundry Gates, Eaft, Weft, North, South, 
 
 and Kay, 
 Feel joint Concuffion and a joint Difmay : 
 
 And fear might Gates which the Chief Temple 
 
 guard, 
 Left, tumbling, they expofe again the Tard y 
 
 The 
 
 Street. And this impious Wretch riding triumphantly in 
 her Chariot through the fame Street, her Driver, ftruck 
 with Horrour at the Sight of the bleeding Corpfe, ftopp'd 
 his Horfes. She call'd to him to go on. He told her, he 
 could not without driving over her own Father's Body. 
 She flung a Stool that was in the Chariot at his Head, com- 
 manding him to drive on. He obeying, fome of her own 
 Father's Blood ftuck to her Chariot Wheels, &c. 
 
 (m) SACHEVERAL.] Dr. HEN SACHEVERAL, fa- 
 mous at the latter End of Q. ANNE'S Reign, for a Sermon, 
 twice preach'd, on the Danger of the Church, from the 
 Text In Perils among falfe Brethren.
 
 84 <Tbe MOBIAD-, cr t 
 
 The feparated Yard> to Gangs who cou'd 
 Shed a new worthier (n) JOHN THE CHAUN- 
 TER'S Blood, 
 
 tj*^- 
 
 Did Chaunters ftill, 'like fuperftitious, creep 
 To warble Pray'r fo early, half afleep. 
 
 Around, the Walls a panic Horror fpreads, 
 And the torn Caftle quick Deftruction dreads : 
 For fcarce more thund'ring in EGYPTIAN Wars 
 To Battle rufh'd Scyth-arm'd their Iron Carrs, 
 As now this defperate (0) deck'd Carr of Hides, 
 Twice twofold Murder rolling on its Sides. 
 
 Tremendous ^TNA in his Bull- Face glows, 
 
 From vvhofe flrong Hold the Rein full length- 
 en'd flows, 
 
 Chin, Cheeks, Nofe, Forehead, all of Ruby feem, 
 And like Carbuncle his flam'd Eyeballs gleam, 
 
 PYROIS, 
 
 (n) JOHN THE CHAUNTER.] A Chaunter of St. Pe- 
 ter's of that Name was heretofore murder'd in the Cioifters, 
 as he was ady in the Morning going to celebrate Mattins. 
 
 (e) So I venture poetically to ftyle a Coach.
 
 Battle of the Voice. 85 
 
 (p) PYROIS, fell Planet ! in his Orbit ne'er 
 So fir'd of Afpect roll'd his bloody Sphere. 
 Nor the Poftillion, in Tann'd Coat of Mail, 
 And Ox-hide Helmet, fails with Look t' afTail : 
 So valiant, keen, and eager to fubdue, 
 Each darts his Glance to run a Thoufand 
 
 through. 
 
 Horfemen, their Petronels in Holfters plac'd, 
 With Crefls embofs'd, and gorgeous Cyphers 
 
 grac'd, 
 
 A cramm'd flick Troop, in Livery a-Jbrf, 
 Politely ruftic, the gay Wheels efcort. 
 October brifkly mantles in the Eye, 
 And Roaft-Beef Gravy feems the Lips to dye. 
 Though bulky Beef-Men of the Moon-fac'd 
 
 Guard r . 
 
 [ny hai'd, 
 
 Shew Cheeks lefs broad, and Backs lefs braw- 
 Yet whilker'd Huflars, fierce in Caps of Fur, 
 Lefs brifkly bold to fudden Skirmifh fpur. 
 
 Such, 
 
 (p) PYRCIS.] A Name of the Planet Mar/.
 
 86 the MO El AD-, or, 
 
 Such, lo ! the Equipage. Shall CLIO tell 
 What (g) Hero loads the vaunting Vehicle ? 
 No j fmiling gravely, {he refers the Strain 
 To her fweet Sifter of facetious Vein, 
 Who thus, perfifting in the comic Pin, 
 
 Sings What> not Who, the mighty MARS 
 within. 
 
 A {hot-free Warrior, who, in Home Cam- 
 paigns, rc . 
 
 [Swains ; 
 
 Commands Dog -Armies, and Dog -kindred 
 And, train'd a modern NIMROD of the Field, 
 
 Makes modern Wild-Beafts of the Paddock 
 yield, 
 
 That not HIRCANIA'S Foreft-Records tell 
 There Tygers by fo vaft a Havock fell 
 As fall the dreadful'ft Harts, whilft boldeft Hares 
 Are vanquifh'd eafily as RUSSIA'S Bears. 
 
 Brave 
 
 (q) Heroe.] This Pi&ure of a Coach and Six, &c. was 
 drawn from the Life, allowing for poetic Embellishment.- 
 [Tbit Gentleman wasfomt Honour ary- freeman ; though indeed, 
 and In ferious and folemn Truth, I have forgot particularly
 
 Battle of the Voice. 87 
 
 Bravely as fharp-fet TROJANS, for their Food, 
 Fought Harpies, he affaults Cocks o' the Wood ; 
 Undaunted as an Afric Hunter tracks 
 The Oftrich, he fell Patridges attacks ; 
 . And fats a more irihofpitable Way 
 With Blood of Snipes, and fuch dire Fowls 
 
 of Prey ! 
 Ev'n HE, for Country's Good, leaves Country 
 
 Chace, 
 
 To head fome City Dregs of Populace j 
 Leaves the fymphonious Howlings of the-| 
 
 Hound, 
 That Packs of Human Barkers may furround, 
 
 And with more favage Harmony cry Sound! J 
 
 f 
 
 But hufh ! For lo ! a more than tuneful 
 
 Strain 
 
 Enchants the Ear : A long and noble Train, 
 Approaching, captivates my dazzled Eye, 
 So bright, fcarce MORN fo brightly gilds the 
 
 Sky, 
 
 . J 
 
 L Say,
 
 88 The MO El AD; or, 
 
 Say, whofe the Tweadle-tweadle fweet, who 
 thofe 
 
 That the long bright Proceffion thus compofe, 
 In Order, as, with too -impeded Speed, 
 They their fuperior Chiefs-of-Rule precede. 
 
 In prime ; a fpruce yet formidable Clan 
 Come marching, as the Civil Army's Van, 
 77/gv6/Conftables, well knowing of their Weight, 
 And Title, once (r) imperial of Conceit. 
 His Step each fortifies with Staff, full quaint 
 With Decorations of refulgent Paint: 
 
 o 
 
 As TROJANS trufty, (s) with a righteous View 
 
 Cull'd all to act impartial Jor the Blue. 
 
 How 
 
 (r) Conftable being deriv'd from J5fw-ftable, and from 
 Koning comes the abbreviated Title King . 
 
 (s} With a righteous View."} All the Conftables are of the 
 Blue Party, as the Party affe&s to be intitled. Their being 
 thus cull'd is a notable Inftance of Juftice and Impartiality \ 
 And who can fufpedl: an ill Caufe to be under-hand ferv'd 
 thereby, fince Magiftrates of any Honour and Confcience 
 would deteft and fcorn any vile Management ? To be fure 
 their candid and neighbourly Defign is only to take the 
 Trouble of keeping Peace, bV. &c. off the Hands of 
 others. 
 
 HM:
 
 Battle of the Voice* 89 
 
 How wife, how juft, the Project thus to bar 
 Againft the Perils of unnatural War ! 
 For when the wicked God of Faction finds 
 An equal Pow'r plac'd with repugnant Minds, 
 In Colleague Breads he kindles hoftiie Spite, 
 And goads the very Guards of Peace to fight : 
 Whilft here's the fole Contention and the Pride, 
 Who beft can buttle on the rightful Side. 
 
 But foftly, MUSE : That Leader ONE 
 
 difplay, 
 Who ftruts fuch an important (t) A PER SE. 
 
 Of bonny Port, a-head the gallant reft, 
 His tipp'd Battoon now flay'd an-end on Breaft, 
 Now in his Grip (too dignify'd to wield 
 A Peftle more !) by the pois'd Middle held, 
 L 2 With 
 
 (/) A PER SE.] That is to fay an A by bimfe/f; the Van- 
 leader of the Alphabet, the heading Letter, the very Alpha* 
 the Prime of all the fubfequent ones. CHAUCER ufes the 
 Phrafe, and it is a very fignificant one. I abhor no expref* 
 five Words for their being antique*
 
 9 o The fd B I A D ; or, 
 
 With moft puiflant Sail their (u) chofen Chief 
 Steers his rigg'd Pageantry of Manly Beef. 
 What happy Union in his Eye we fee ! 
 Where Sweetnefs has etpbus'd Ferocity ! 
 Parts in his Frame PARIS and HECTOR crave ; 
 Strong, elegant, brifk, beautiful, and brave. 
 
 With lefs Decorum Chriflmas Mummer ftruts 
 Than on He bears his goodly Grace of Guts, 
 
 Though that fame Mummer (x) ENGLAND'S 
 HE ROE plays, 
 
 And Dragon with his Whineard's Flourifh flays. 
 
 No 
 
 (u} CYAN us, al. GEORGE E, the Druggift, who gat to 
 be the Captain Con/table by bidding higheft for the Short Staff, 
 and procured it to be tipp'd at each End with Silver, his 
 Name engrav*<i thereon, with the Date of the Year. 
 
 (x) 1: nglancTs Htroe. ] St. George for England. At 
 Chriftmas are (or at leaft very lately were) Fellows wont tp 
 go about from Houfe to Houfe in Exeter a mumming j one 
 of whom, in a (borrow'd) Holland Shirt, moft gorgeoufly 
 be-ribbcn'd, over hisWaiftcoat, tsc. flourifhing a Faulchion, 
 yery valiantly entertains the admiring Spectators thus : 
 
 " Oh ! here comes I Saint George, a Man of Courage bold, 
 
 " And with my Spear I winn'd three Crowns of Gold. 
 
 .' : 1 flew the Dragon, and broughr him to the Slaughter ; 
 
 ?.' .And by that very means I married Sabra, the beauteous 
 .'* JCinjr qf Egypt's Daughter, Play Mufick."
 
 Battle of the Voice. 9 1 
 
 No HAMLET'S Ghoft can more majeftic hold 
 His Truncheon, nor Stage- HANNIBAL fo bold ; 
 Nor one of all the (y) Raggamuffian Guard 
 Of South'nhay Fair more ftately bears the Yard. 
 See ! whilft aright wide-throated Franticks fhout, 
 With nodded Thanks he chears the rafcal Rout j 
 His Ruffle fhak'd encourages the Roar, f , 
 And fmil'd Rewards his gracious Mum flood 
 
 Next (z) BEADLES (as in Packs of Cards be 
 (a) Knaves, 
 
 Two Couple juft) with Brazen-headed Staves, 
 
 In 
 
 (y) Raggamuffian Guard.] A Fair being held in our 
 Soutbernbay Aug. i. a Parcel of moft be-tatter'd Fellows, 
 furnifh'd with Truncheons, of about a Yard in Length (and 
 therefrom, I fuppofe, denominated Yardf-men) are fwornto 
 keep the Peace, &c. &c, &c. 
 
 (z) Beadles.] Thofe whom we commonly call Stave- 
 bearers^ from the Staves with large brazen Heads which they 
 carry in their Hands on Duty. In the Chriftmas Quarter 
 they become Bell-men of the Night, and thump carefully 
 and frightfully at our Doors, at every Turn repeating, in 
 the moft abominable manner that can pofTtbly be conceiv'd a 
 Bull-dog could by the Gift of Speech pronounce with a 
 Flint-ftone in his Mouth, the moft wretched and hideous 
 Rhymes ever made by the vileft Devil of a Poet. See p. 83, 
 
 (a) Knaves.'] or Gnaves, The Name originally means 
 
 no
 
 92 <tbe MOB IAD-, or, 
 
 In tuck'd Blue Vefts, and Bonnets Gold of Brim, 
 
 (What Turk's Head Sign flares, tho* muftach'd, 
 fo grim ? 
 
 Whofe Brows o'erwhekn'd with (b) Varlet 
 Haughtinefs 
 
 Them fignalize Journeymen- Juftices, 
 March, throwing Looks of Magiftracy round, 
 As if to menace Stocks, Backdate, or Pound - f 
 
 (Stocks for th' Unupright, or poor Swearer's 
 Feet, 
 
 And Pound for Hogs caught vagabond in Street; 
 Where ftarving oft' the Strollers wail, attack'd 
 By trading Juftice on the Vagrant Act). 
 
 The Staves they bear, from whence Stave- 
 bearers we 
 
 Them call, are Staves of Vaflal Dignity -, 
 
 Not thofe which in black Winter Nights with 
 Knock 
 
 From Reft us ftartle but to learn the Clock, 
 
 Or 
 
 no worfe than mere Servants , (thus in an old Tranflation, 
 Paul a knave ofjefus Ckrift}, or Serjeants, Servientes. 
 
 (b) Variety perhaps, meant little more formerly than does 
 Valet now.
 
 Battle of the Voice. 93 
 
 Or feel tremendous Rhyme, in mumbling wife 
 Croak'd horrible, our tingling Ears chaftife, 
 When Sifmal Voice, and difmal Clink of Bell, 
 
 Inflict Good-Morrows with (c) Death> Judg- 
 ment, Hell. 
 
 Minftrels, in Cloaks, for Age how reverend ! 
 
 From whofe grac'd Necks priz'd Silver Chains 
 
 depend, . 
 
 [blow 
 
 Come, whofe Balloon, Trump, and Recorders 
 Exftatic Glee before the Grandee Show j 
 Whilft on each Side a Vocal Thunder peals, 
 And far and wide the walking Pomp reveals ; 
 
 Crowds upon Crowds, as in capricious Trance, 
 As if to ramm the ftarting Pavement dance. 
 
 The 
 
 t 
 
 (c) Death) &c.] This refpe&s thefe their Verfes (which 
 indeed may be efteeni'd their heft) viz. 
 
 " There is Four Things confider well, 
 
 *' Death, Judgment, Heaven, and Hell; 
 
 " Which if in Caufe you do negleft, 
 
 *' Unquiet Reft you may expeft ; 
 
 '* Good-morrow Mr. Such an one (Thump!) &c. &c. &c. 
 Though I am apt to fear that if in Caufe many among us 
 did not neglect to confider of thefe Four Things, they would 
 take lefs quiet Reft than ufually they take.
 
 94 *tt* MO El AD-, or, 
 
 The trampled Stones refound, and ev'ry Door 
 And Cafement rattle at the glad Uproar. 
 
 % 
 
 So when fweet ORPHEUS ftruck the artful 
 
 **^ 
 
 Chords, 
 
 That eloquently warbled magic Words, 
 A frifky Joy Bulls, Boars, and Bears poflefs'd, 
 And Apes and Afles vy'd to caper beft j 
 
 Dales, Hills, and Woods, and Rocks, and 
 Dens around, 
 
 Kept Time in Rapture at the quick'ning Sound. 
 
 In gorgeous Robes, and Hats fuperb of Lace, 
 Four Serjeants follow, each with mighty Mace ; 
 Not thofe dull (d] piteousToys which heretofore 
 
 HAIN, OXENBERE, EVANS, and STAPLEHILL 
 
 bore, 
 
 Whofe 
 
 (d) Toys,} They have now very handfome Maces. But 
 their former ones were fuch pitiful Things as might deferve 
 Ridicule almoft as well as the Mace of Lydford^ defcrib'd 
 by the old Poet Mr. Brown thus, 
 
 * A Piece of Coral to the Mace, 
 
 * Which there I faw to ferve in Place, ' 
 ' Might make a good Child's Whittle.' 
 
 But ours, I confefs, might have been converted into toler- 
 able Punch-Ladles,
 
 Battle of the Voice. 95 
 
 Whofe hollow Knobs, and Stems minute and 
 mort, 
 
 Shew'd as for Rattles made and Childrens Sport, 
 But crown'd, and fo magnificent in Mode, 
 They'd worthily Four Heralds Shoulders load. 
 
 Be-crown'd with Cap of an Umbrella's Size, 
 Rich Velvet, richer in Embroideries, 
 Cornes burley He, who, as of Spades the King, 
 Bears Sword erect j a fine and fearful Thing. 
 
 Cou'd Duke inrob'd at Coronation e'er r , . 
 
 [bear r 
 
 With Gait more courtly the (e) CURT AN A 
 Or cou'd a (f) Lifter's Ax and Fafces fpread, 
 If drawn from its fair Scabbard, keener Dread ? 
 
 Behind this Guardian Armour-bearer pace 
 The PRAETOR and his PEERS, Brace after Brace ; 
 Ah 1 too opprefs'd to ambling fweep along 
 
 Through the Ten-deep, clofe-thrufting, noify 
 
 Throng, 
 
 M Though 
 
 (e) Curtana ] The unpointed Sword borne at Coronations. 
 
 (f) Littor's Ax and Fafces. ] Such were borne before the 
 Confuls and Emperors of antient Rome*
 
 96 7& MQEIADi or, 
 
 Though is with Buttle a {freight Alley made, 
 And pious Bowings own the dread Parade. 
 
 Who, and how dignify'd, grave Goodefs, fay 
 The Sages of the Worfhipful Array : 
 Say, has LYCURGUS here aflum'd the Gown, 
 And SOLON, Side by Side, took Rule in Town ? 
 
 Say MUSE. No : Cautious of Conftrudtion 
 wrong, 
 
 A trembling Veneration checks the Song, 
 Nor She thofe Graces hopes to deck her Lays 
 Which join'd whilom in SIR JOHN ADEE'S Praife, 
 
 Whence Bays fo vaft forestalling (g) BARRET 
 won, 
 
 He hardly left a Leaf to browfe upon ; 
 
 Who PHOEBUS* Son tbrice told ! his own Work 
 
 [rung ; 
 Whilft, hackling fawn, his Grumbler - Viol 
 
 That 
 
 (g) "Barret, ] A Fellow who went about with a Bafe- 
 Viol (though he never could play one Tune in his Life) on 
 which he, as we may fay, hack'd and faw'd a grumbling 
 gruft Noife, calling it flaying Bafe. He was the Author of 
 the Ballad on Mr, Adee, who aflum'd, in Joke, the Title 
 of Sir John Adet* Se more in a fucj:eeding Note.
 
 Battle of the Voice. -97 
 
 That ne'er fo gruff a Melody cou'd fpring 
 From a Morifc&i Bladder-and-a-String. 
 Time-nicking Bard ! who with fuch cogent Eafe 
 Could'ft the refined Tafte of CHAMBER pleafe ! 
 
 Thus the like ruftic lucky Lays could bring 
 On PAN the laudful Judgment of a (h) King. 
 
 That chofen Band whom we the Vaward faw, 
 The executive Potence of our Law, 
 Ent'ring the Roof of Juftice, Strife, and Storm, 
 With order'd Staffs a Lane, detruding, form ; 
 
 Which ere CHIEF-RULERS through can pene- 
 trate, rr 
 
 [oate j 
 
 Th' impatient Million jaumbing choak the 
 
 And there might flick, but that th' effe&ive 
 Sway 
 
 Of backing Shovers clears th' obftructed Way. 
 Rough Anarchy floods blund'ring in amain, 
 And furly Riot chafes perverfe to reign. 
 
 M 2 Routs, 
 
 (h) King.'] Viz. MIDAS, who decree'd the Prize to 
 PAN, even againft the God gf Mufick and Poetry himfelf, 
 APOLLO, or PHOEBUS.
 
 98 Ibe MO El AD-, or, 
 
 Routs, after Routs, 'fore-ftumbling Routs 
 
 difplace, 
 
 Then to new Forcers yield the feized Space. 
 The vaunting He6tors pf athletic Frame, 
 
 Whom does Exonian Speech (i) RUMBULLIANS 
 
 name, r , 
 
 [icorn 
 
 Cleave with ternpeft'ous Drift the Prefs, and 
 To find a PafTage, fince to make it born. 
 
 Like that bold (k) Keel which broke flrong 
 
 VIGO'S Boom, rri 
 
 [Room : 
 
 The headlong Ruffians burft themfelves a 
 
 The 
 
 (i) Rumhullians.] We Exonians, who have fonie Words 
 peculiar, I believe, to ourfelves, call furious, headftrong, 
 headlong, boifterous Men, Rumbullian Fellows. 
 
 (k) Kee/.] Keel, as poetically does Carina in Latin, 
 heretofore fignify'd a whole Ship. But without having 
 Recourfe to fuch its old Meaning, or to a Figure in 
 Rhetorick, it 'is properly enough us'd in its prefent Accep- 
 tation of only Part of a Ship The Exploit here referred to 
 is in the Expedition at Vigo, in 1702, when Admiral Hop- 
 fin, in the Tor6ay, cutting his Cables, and clapping on all 
 his Sails, bore up upon the Boom laid acrofs the Streight, 
 and broke through it at once ; though it was made up of 
 Marts, Yards, Cables, Top- Chains, and Ca&s, faften'd 
 together with Ropes, feveral Yards in Circumference, 
 under-run with Hauzers and Cables, and kept fteady by 
 Anchors caft on both Sides of rt.
 
 Battle of the Voice. 99 
 
 The Numbers, fwagging, on each Flank give 
 
 way -, 
 For Force muft over-bearing Force obey. . 
 
 Thus, mid - way the Canal (I}, where 
 
 Drudges flow r 
 
 [tow, 
 
 To (m) ISCA'S Port Ship, Barque, and Lighter 
 With maily Bars Wights of herculean Brood 
 Sluice-Fenders lift, to equalize the Flood ; 
 O'er violent the eager Waters gum 
 Through the fmall Opes, and onward roaring 
 
 pufh, 
 
 Dam rapid on the flaky Banks, the Soil 1 
 And Pebbles thence expel, high-froathing boil, I 
 And the whirl'd Pond with mad Conteft im- I 
 
 broil. j 
 
 But 
 
 (I) CanalC\ There is a Paflage cut for Ships to and from 
 Topfham, vulgarly call'd the Ha'tn, corruptly, or con- 
 tradledly, for Haven. The particular Place here meant is 
 what we properly enough call the Double Lock. The De- 
 fcription of the Water's violently gufliing thro' the Sluice, 
 &c. is precifely natural and juft. 
 
 (m] Ifca's Port.} The Kay of Exeter.
 
 TOO ?he MOBIAD-, or, 
 
 But heark ! That Bell which yells a fwift 
 
 Alarm F 
 
 [too warm, 
 
 When (n) guilty Hearths inflame the Town- 
 Now, Dn the Guildhall's lofty Forehead fwings, 
 And, quick, around its warnful Tinkle flings. 
 Its Jingles to more clofe Attendance call 
 Attending Freemen in th' interiour Hall. 
 
 Up Stairs dired fair Ceremony leads 
 Sedate to Confult the determin'd HEADS : 
 For wifts Sufpicion, hank'ring near the Door, 
 The Confult's but of Things refolv'd before. 
 
 But not behoves it our mean MUSE to learn 
 State Myfteries of fuch a high Concern. 
 Let her, content, a furer Track purfue, 
 And (ing but Matters level with her View. 
 
 And what though Tongues of Virulence may 
 flirt 
 
 Their low Afperfions of malignant Dirt, 
 
 Short 
 
 () When Chimneys are on fire, this Alarm Bell is rung ; 
 and the Inhabitant of that Houfe whofe Chimney was in a 
 Blaze, is to fuffer a Fine.
 
 Battle of the Voice. joi 
 
 Short of the Reach are the foul Slanders (hot, 
 Scorn'd and derided, nor at all befpot. 
 
 So the firm Guildhall high ere&s its Head, 
 And, while Straw-Bonfires choaking Darknefs 
 
 fpread, 
 
 Its brifk Serene's fcarce fully'd by the Cloud, 
 Nor dreads the Rage of widen'd Gutter's Flood, 
 Heedlefs fees wizzing Squibs and Crackers fly, 
 And bids the Rocket's direr Bounce Defie. 
 
 But worihipful laft Year's Triumvirate, 
 The Leafh who aid the PR^TOR'S Chair of 
 
 State, 
 
 Share his Fatigues of Law, nor let, 'tis faid, 
 His Wormip ev'n at Dinner want their Aid, 
 But help at taking Bowl as well as Bail, 
 At fluffing Jerkins as at fluffing Jail, 
 CalFd STEWARDS now, but erft were BAILIFFS 
 
 nam'd, 
 Ere Catchpoks had the honeft Style defam'd) 
 
 In
 
 102 7& MO El AD-, or, 
 
 In fable Robes, which on the Shoulders rik 
 In folemn fort, and fhape the Afpect wife, 
 
 Prefide at Board below, or haply treat, 
 
 **= 
 
 Their apt Ambition with the Judgment Seat. 
 
 With Warrants ftamp'd on each officious 
 Face 
 
 Staff-Officers, too, feize th* internal Place : 
 
 Thick as the Darts which mounts the Porcu- 
 pine 
 
 Thtir Arms erect with gilded Glory mine. 
 
 Now Walnuts crackle 'tween the Grinder 
 Jaws, 
 
 And bufily engage the peeling Claws j 
 
 While brifk the Glafs, with whittling Sherris 
 
 crown'd, r 
 
 [goes round j 
 
 Quips, Bams, and Bobs, and waggifh Fraud, 
 Jokes which did ISCA pride in, when 'twas Wit 
 To twirl the Hat, twitch Wig, or Knuckles hit j 
 To tickle with a Straw, or fplafh your Shin, 
 Diftort the Face, twick Ear, or thruft a Pin. 
 
 A
 
 Battle of the Voice. 103 
 
 A Monkey fo by Mows and Friiks attefts 
 Himfelf the Wit mofl parlous of the Beafts. 
 But moft of Wit claims he who greater! Share 
 Of Nuts can fcrabble, or of Bottle clear. 
 
 The chewing Bibbers ftrike with envious 
 
 Pain 
 
 The Routs behind, who fuck their Lips in vain, 
 Unlefs fome noting Friend-in-Court beftow 
 A Bumper,*- or for Kindnefs, or for Show. 
 
 Mean while thofe Courtiers, thus at Banquet, 
 
 loud, 
 
 Keep Time fymphonious with the outer Crowd, 
 Who, burning to the Strife, in Toil rejoice, 
 Profufe of Sweat, and prodigal of Voice -, 
 And as they more imbibe the hoftile Jar, 
 They thirft the more infatiate of the War. 
 Lefs, and lefs furious, fwells the mingled Roar, 
 When Winds and Billows ftorm at once the 
 
 Shore. 
 
 N For
 
 104 fk MO BIAD-, or, 
 
 For Colour chiefly the Difputes abound, 
 And Rants for the momentous Beft of Sound. 
 Some for the Tellow hoarfly yell, and fome 
 Belch grofly Blue! unknowing both for whom, 
 
 f A Moment now again to rooflefs Air, 
 For more diftinct Infpection, MUSE ! repair -, 
 The baleful Fruits of rougher Strife explore, 
 
 Or young in Bud, or rotting-ripe at Core. 
 
 -?^yi> v ;y . 
 Around pay'd Eyes fee fervent Rifings glow, 
 
 Of Caft more various than the Show'ry-Bow -, 
 And Teints of Or and Azure on the Cheeks, 
 The Blue and Telkw, ftriving Hues, commix 
 A fady Green, which Vert learn'd Heralds call, 
 And Gules and Sables, Red and Black, withal. 
 See halting Legs fore to the Senfe proclaim 
 Their Wrench by Wreftlipgs, or by Spurns 
 
 their Maim. 
 
 See, fqualid Patches on die bunch*d Brows tell 
 What Knuckles have bang'd up a motly Swell. 
 
 See
 
 Battle of the Voice* 105 
 
 See, clotty Stains, red, dribbled on the Clothes, 
 Mark Civil Blood fhed by uncivil Foes, 
 Whofe unbroke Buffet, or ill-warded Poach, 
 The Temples fcarr'd, or fet the Nofe abroach. 
 
 Survey that Tow'r of Flefh with fawcy Pride 
 Grieving yond* Pillar with his leaning Side, 
 As if an Ape of SAMPSON bent to move 
 The Frontier Columns from their Charge above. 
 What Name foe' r might his firfl Sponfors chufe, 
 The licensed Verfe fhall that of CARNAGE ufe. 
 Referv'd of Voice, compact of Force, he flands, 
 Morofe & glum, with crofs'd imbofom'd Hands. 
 His gloomy Looks affect a fterner Air 
 
 Than HOGARTH'S (9) hack'd grim Swordfman 
 in the Fair, 
 
 And, glouting fcornful, with Defiance watch 
 For fome Mob-AjAx, fole a worthy Match ; 
 Nor own him yet j but with difdainful Toes 
 He mean-time fpurns approaching meaner Foes. 
 N 2 So, 
 
 (o) See Southwajk Fair by Hoc ART::.
 
 io6 Sfo MOBIAD-, or, 
 
 So, as the Bull at Stake like grimly ftands," 
 And lours a Challenge to the Shamble-Bands, 
 Stout duels all their brindled Maftives round, 
 And cafts them, falling, to imprefs the Ground ; 
 Though Three ally'd fhot on he'd work to fling, 
 Beyond the Safeguard of the partial Ring ; 
 
 Yet fanghlefs Whelps play'd yelping on he'd 
 fcorn 
 
 Should feel the Credit of his chaft'ning Horn ; 
 But, while aloft adult Dogs whirling fly, 
 He'd foot their defpicable Puppies by. 
 
 Oh blind to Fate ! thou too pr-efuming 'ftrong ! 
 The deftin'd Match, amid the inner Throng, 
 kike arrogant, will foon the Lifts demand, 
 And meet thy Vaunting with Correction's Hand; 
 With wringing Gripe Left-hand on Throav fhall 
 
 r 1 
 
 [maul. 
 And th' heavier Right thy quacking Bofom 
 
 Hence, hauking ropy Blood, lame, blind, and 
 
 fore, , 
 
 [deplore, 
 
 Thy Morrow's Groans fhall vapour'd Strength 
 
 And
 
 Battle of the Voice, 107 
 
 And in thy wallow'd Bed be Solace vain 
 That thy Foe, welt'ring, moans an equal Pain, 
 Or that Time fitter may clear Stage allow, 
 And HERCULES lefs neufer to thy Vow : 
 For anxious Dread {hall rather plague thy Soul, 
 JLeft Bindings-over more thy Fifts controul. 
 
 End of the Fourth Cantol 
 
 CANTO V.
 
 loS the MOB IAD; or, 
 
 WTOtWI"M 
 
 fe^vJCANT-O V. ^ - 
 
 WHether the haughty Defpot of the 
 (a) Air 
 
 In flormy Clouds ftill holds imperial Chair, 
 Or in infernal Den awaits his Doom, 
 Referv'd in (b) Everlafting Chains of Gloom, 
 Above our Soaring mounts, or too profound 
 Lies for the Plummet of our Guefs to found. 
 To Clerks more vers'd in Lore abftrufe we leave 
 Full Proofs on either Side or both to weave. 
 
 Too 
 
 (a) The Air.'} According to EPHES. ii. 2. The Prince 
 of the Power of the Air^ the Spirit that new worketh in the 
 Children of Difobedience. See alfo Hiftory of the Devil. 
 
 (b) Everlajling Chains , &c.] According to JUDE, ver. 6. 
 The Angels which kept not their firji EJiate^ but left their 
 own Habitation^ he hath referved in Everlafting Chains 
 under Darknefs^ unto the 'Judgment of the great Day.* 
 II. PETER ii. 4. Caji them down to Hell, and delivered into 
 Chains of Darknefs, to be referved unto Judgment.
 
 Battle of the Voice. 109 
 
 Too well we know, though we too rarely mind, 
 His (c) Angeh here too frank Reception find, 
 
 When whifp'ring fly Temptation to the 
 Thought, 
 
 And twitching by the Paflions to be naught. 
 
 (d) Not that, as in Old-time, now Midnight 
 
 hears 
 
 Fiends roaring wake Folk to neglected Pray'rs. 
 No longer are their Feet fpy'd cloven now, 
 Nor lampy Eyes more broad than Saucers glow. 
 No maudlin Bibbers, tho' they doubly view, 
 In (e) MARY-ARCHES-LANE, by Glance alkew, 
 See Coffins op'ning, or White Shrouds to ftalk, 
 Or Palls and Cloaks in black Proceffion walk. 
 No flafhing Coaches over BELHILL rove, 
 As if SALMONEUS mimic Thunder drove; 
 
 Though 
 
 (c) Angels*} Read MAT. xxv. 41. REV. 3ii. 7, 9. 
 THIS. iii. 5, &c. 
 
 '(d) Note, The feveral terrible Things in this Part of the 
 Poem detailed were really reported, nay and believed, to 
 have been feen, felt, heard, and underftood, in E*eter. 
 
 (e) This Lane is one of the moft common Avenues to 
 the common Burial- Yard, viz. ST. BARTHOLOMEW'S.
 
 no The MOB IAD-, or, 
 
 Though empty (f) Cafks, by Rakes from 
 
 Grocer's Door, 
 Down tumbled tumbling, haply ftartle more. 
 
 No Headlefs-Horfe neigKs {trolling Wench to 
 
 Bed, r , 
 
 \read. 
 
 Nor drives Boys, late out-flaying, home to 
 No Goblins fluggifh Sabbath-breaker roufe 
 To hurry to the Church, fure Safety's Houfe. 
 A Burglar, loaden with new-plunder'd Pelf, 
 Efpies no mortal Thing (g) worfe than himfelf. 
 
 The Waits may now, in (-6) blackejl Month, 
 go through 
 
 Ev'n thefujpicious Clofe of BARTHO'MEW, 
 
 Nor 
 
 (f) At the Head of Bellhill lately lived a Grocer, who 
 too often left empty Hogftieads all Night at his Door, at 
 but a narrow Paflage. 
 
 (g) Worfe, &c. ] Thofe who, on hearing Tales of 
 Walking Devils, &c. in Exeter, wou'd {jgnify that they 
 for their Parts never beheld any fuch, ufe to exprefs them- 
 felves thus : / thank God, I've gone all Hours of the Wght, 
 in many fufpicipiis Places, and yet never faw any Thing worfe 
 than myfelf. 
 
 (h) Blackeft Month.) They have or had a Notion that in 
 the black Month (as they call it when the Days are at the 
 fliorteft) the Devils are the moil privileged to roam about, 
 
 and
 
 Battle of the Voice. in 
 
 N6r by that Calvary hear difmal Groan 
 
 But difmal that from fnufHing Courtal blown, 
 
 Nor (/) Southgates Porter now lets in a Mifs 
 
 At Night's dark Noon whom wou'd he fear to 
 kifs. 
 
 Ev'n in Church-Porches (Antient Gran- 
 dams told) - 
 
 In Winter Nights lewd Mormo's, horrid bold ! 
 By us Bullbeggars bight > were yelling heard, 
 And dev'lifh Rackets in the faered Yard. 
 Then (k) Jack-in-Lantern fooling would miflead 
 
 Through ^og and Brake the Sot's benighted 
 
 Tread 
 
 O Sprights 
 
 and play theif devilifh Tricks j whereby the ferenading 
 Waits, in their nightly Walks, us'd very particularly to be 
 frighten'd, and to fcamper off. Thofa are calPd fujpicisus 
 Places where People had hang'd themfelves, died fuddenly, 
 &c. Churches, and Church-yards, and empty Houfes, ufe 
 here to be call'd fufpicious Places. 
 
 (i) I remember it was reported, and believed, that, 
 during the Porterfhip of Old Mr. NICHOLS at S. Gate^ 
 the Devil in Shape of a fine Gentlewoman us'd to give a 
 {ingle Knock, juft after Twelve o' Clock at Night, and 
 Was let in conftantly by him. 
 
 (k) Jack-in- Lantern^ the fame as Will-witb-a-Wifp j 
 the ignis fatuut.
 
 112 'The MOB I AD-, or, 
 
 Sprights were as frequent in void Houfes then 
 As were in lonely Lanes grim (/} Gagger-men, 
 Then frighted Candles gave, by flaming blue, 
 The fure Oflent fome Ghofl's Approach to rue j 
 Down went the Cards, though Trumps, for 
 
 Satan* s Books, 
 And each beheld a Ghoft in t'other's Looks. 
 
 Then in the Streets dead Scavengers wou'd 
 drive 
 
 . .*'". t>'/^ " "' 
 
 As nat'ral Wheelbarrows as when alive. 
 
 In Meadows then, by Moonfhine, frifky Elves 
 
 In Circlets, handing, tripp'd to breathe them- 
 felves ; 
 
 And- where their petty Toes went featly round, 
 More fljrid Failure dignify 'd the Ground : 
 To Nurfe a-dream then wou'd they ftealing 
 
 And foftly draw her Bantlin from her Side, 
 
 J 
 
 And 
 
 (I) Gag%ermen.} So we ufed to call Plagiaries, Kidnap- 
 pers, or Bov-ftealers, from the Gags they are reported to 
 clap in the ChUdiens Mouths whom they have fpirited 
 away.
 
 Battle of the Voice. 113 
 
 And in its flead flip a young Fairy Brat, ^ "\ 
 
 Thrice taller than themfelves, more grofs, I 
 and pat 
 
 As like as if Twin -Brother born to that. j 
 
 Then PUCK (or GOODFELLOW ) from 
 Room to Room 
 
 Hurl'dComb, Cowl, Shoe, Trowfers, 5eads, 
 Ladle, Broom ; 
 
 And when wou'd fumbling Beldams Pitcher fill, 
 Joggling their wither'd Arms the Ale he'd fpill j 
 Nay, oft* o'erturn the Chamber's needful Vafe, 
 And with foul Deluge ill-perfume the Place ; 
 Sometimes long Grafs o'er Paths in Knots he'd 
 
 [fly. 
 And upwards make DOLL Milkmaid's Trotters 
 
 But now they're banim'd quite, nor big as Eft 
 One to be lafh'd by (m) DEMOGORGON left. 
 Not OBERON returns ; nor MAB his Queen 
 By CYNTHIA'S and by COLLIN'S Eyesisfeen. 
 O2 We 
 
 (m) Demogorgtn.) See DRYB EN'S Fable of The 
 and the Leaf.
 
 MOBIAD-, or, 
 
 We not their Footfteps fearch : But when we 
 
 view 
 
 The GrafTy Ringlets fhine of greener Hue, 
 Conclude we Compoft, Tor Manuring brought, 
 
 With richer Juice the bord ? ring Verdure 
 
 wrought. 
 
 [keep 
 
 The Fiends which once did frightful Routings 
 In Porches, now turn out-fhut Dogs afleep. 
 
 Hence the old flaming Sprights prove Glow- 
 worms now, 
 
 And Guttur GlympfesWhitens Heads we know. 
 
 Hence Death-watches, which often flew the 
 Sick, 
 
 Are now found Infects of a harmlefs Click. 
 
 Hence fkitt'ring Rats are Rats, whofe Squeaks 
 not fcare 
 
 With Fairy Talk the fuckling Nurfe's Ear. 
 To Manhood hence EXONIAN Mothers bring 
 Ten Politicans ere one (n) Chan-ge-ling. 
 
 " ; '.''/;,!.,?.'', 
 
 Hence 
 
 () Changeling,} Many vulgar People here in the Pro- 
 nunciation of the Word make it confift of Three Syllables, 
 thus : Chan-ge'ling.
 
 Kath fav'd his own, with Senatorial! Air, 
 To (r)fecond each great Motion of the May 
 
 Battle of the Voice. 115 
 
 Hence (o) MAURUS native Wit retains ; and 
 hence 
 
 Shrewd (/>) MANLIUS preferves his Infant Senfe. 
 Hence qualify 'd is Boy-Trick B GHAM found 
 
 To mate (q) His Honour, and difcourfe his 
 Hound. 
 
 Hence H-CK-R, manly wife, though maidlyy 
 fair, 
 
 ,1 
 
 If then, ev'n Fairies have refign'd their Balls, 
 AfTemblies, Ring?, Mafks, Wakes, and Feftivals, 
 Old ACHERON'S mere Dotards, furely, wou'd 
 Bo-peeping* terrify us to be good. 
 What Tempers worthy of the Style wou'd gin 
 Our Hearts by Methods that deter from Sin ! 
 No ; the oft* bilk'd Enticers, grown more wife, 
 Now drefs up lovely in chous'd Mortals Eyes, 
 
 And 
 
 , (0} WILL, (p] JOHN, (q) Honour.} Sir H. Nkc-u. 
 (r) Second.] This finical and auguft Chamber-man, on 
 the Mayor's propofing a Matter in Council, is prompt to 
 be the firft to back him, with his Mr. Mayor! Ijecwfl 
 that Motion.
 
 n6 %? MOBIAD-, or, 
 
 And lure with Calls inchanting as the Air 
 Of FARINELLI in a Theatre. 
 Hence, (though with Witch and Sorcerer by Adi: 
 Of Senate be cut off eachjfomV Compact) 
 They with unwitting Souls gain fnug Abode! 
 And, to mifguide us from the (s) Gofpel Road, > 
 Attempt to perfonate Envoys of G O D. j 
 
 Some they in Punk's, or Punch-bowl's, Shape 
 engage, 
 
 In Palf's Form fome, and fome of Equipage. 
 Some with High Poft and Title in they draw, 
 Some to make Equity unjuft by Law. 
 No few they urge in Aid of 'Truth to lie y 
 Some to take Peevifrnejs for Piety. 
 They others tempt to make Election fure 
 
 By formal Mein, ftirF Neck, and Cheeks 
 
 demure. r , 
 
 [take, 
 
 Thkk - crjwding Shoals into their Nets they 
 By Acts immoral for Religions fake, 
 
 Who 
 
 (s) Gofpel.] The Etymon is God's Sptll, or God's Woid.
 
 Battle of the Voice. 
 
 Who Charity's Defect o'er-pay with Creeds, 
 While ivarpkfs Faith attones for crooked Deeds. 
 
 Whole Caravans of wou'd-look Saints they 
 
 win, r , , c . 
 
 [hour s Sin ; 
 
 Who fpare their own, and lafh their Neigh- 
 Or flrive with Pray'r an evil Caufe to prop, 
 And thank in Pew for fraudful Gain in Shop. 
 Some Profligates they trick by tingle Hofte 
 To keep from going down, when yielding up 
 
 the Ghoft : 
 
 Some to ken Heav'n for Reprobates fly ope, 
 Stow'd fafe in hallow'd Soil with certain Hope. 
 Some they infnare Mif duty to purfue 
 By chrift'ning one, and choufmg t'other (f) JEW. 
 Some they teach fpiteful Kindnefs, who abate 
 To lefs than T.wop^nce on the Ptf#/w-Rate, 
 For Amputation of the Votes of fuch 
 As poll'd for FORTY-MEN amifs too much. 
 
 In 
 
 (t) Jnu.] OTTOLENCHE and GABRIEL TREVES.
 
 u8 The MOBIAD-, or, 
 
 In PORTUGAL, the Choler of the Prieft 
 They to imprifon, rack, and burn, affift, 
 And play the Devil in the Name of Chrift. 
 
 But they invifible bear thus the Prize, 
 Or mafquerading in a fpecious Guife -, 
 
 Who would be munn d, were their Complexi- 
 ons foot, rr , 
 
 [Poof, 
 
 Nor hid their Tails, Claws, Horns, and Cloven 
 
 Or from their Throats blue-flaming Belches 
 broke, 
 
 And Noftrils fnorted a fulphureous Smoke. 
 
 Yet, would we imp with pilfer'd Plumes 
 
 our Wings, 
 
 Like fome, to foar fublime at flighty things, 
 
 We, by Imagination, might repair r . 
 
 I Air, 
 
 Old (u) PANDEMONIUM, or build new in th* 
 And, fummon'd, there, in hellim Pomp convene 
 
 Wrath's fiery Demons, and thofe Fiends of 
 
 Spleen, 
 
 Which 
 
 (u) Pandemonium. See MILTON. Like as PANT HE OM 
 means a full Aflembly of the Gods, fo Pandemonium figm- 
 fies that of all the Devils.
 
 Battle of the Voice. 119 
 
 Which factious SOLYMA in Siege fo rued, 
 Self-ruin'd, by inteftine Strife fubdued : 
 
 Where (while in State fit Demons of Com- 
 mand, 
 And thick around the Goblin Commons ftand) 
 
 Might His grim Majefty of Sin harangue 5 , 
 As in MMtonian Mode, his VafTal Gang. 
 Then might a Pofle of Hell's Rabble ply 
 Their fmutty Wings, and to EXONIA fly; 
 And in the Blood of her ferocious Hofts, 
 The Stygian Legions take their deftin'd Ports. 
 
 But as the MUSE in beaten Traces to mine"! 
 Difdains, fhe wou'd Machinery decline, > 
 
 Proud to have fprung of no afpiring Line. j 
 
 (Nor needs he an exotic Rage afcribe 
 o 
 To goad a born-and bred-to Fury Tribe, 
 
 Whom if to line fuch bellijh Mobbers ftrove, 
 They might themf elves in Belial Atts, improve. 
 
 Suffice it, then, to fay, their Earthly Kin 
 Chafe as if did a Legion fume within : 
 
 P Their
 
 tte MOBIAD-, or, 
 
 Their own ERYNNIS, to the MUSE confeft, 
 More fires the Brain, more ftimulates the Breaft. 
 For we already have digrefs*d too long, 
 And ought refume the interrupted Song. 
 
 MUSE ! teach me Notes adapted to rehearfe 
 Strife rais'd to Tempeft in congruent Verfe ! 
 And fafely fuch bold Hurricane to form, 
 Curb THOU its Fury, and control the Storm j 
 Yet whatfoever Pitch the Numbers fly, 
 Let fmiling HUMOUR flill accompany. 
 
 Count it the Inftant when NED'S Face o'Fire 
 To five Hours Cooling leaves the heated Quire, 
 And, with a Back -Lane Cogue 'new-fuel'd, 
 
 Through EASTGATE, redder then an Auflr'an 
 
 Then, turn'd from LONDON-!NN tow'ds LI- 
 VERY-DOLE, 
 
 Makes PARIS-STREET to dread a flaming Coal, 
 
 That 
 
 Flvt Hours, &c.] That is between Prayer and Prayer 
 Time, from Eleven till Four.
 
 Battle of the Voice. \ 2 1 
 
 That each poor Dweller, anxious, eyes his 
 
 Thatch, r , 
 
 [hatch. 
 
 Left reaching Sparks (z) new Conflagrations 
 
 Mean- while Throat-Battle rages; Party Cant 
 Mingles its foul Antiphone of Rant : 
 The Babel Clamours, varying, around; 
 Thus plainly, with confus'd Diftin&ion, found : 
 
 ' Blue /Yellow ! Sound for HADDY! Sound 
 
 for HEATH ! r _. . , 
 
 [to Death! 
 
 c H-a-h! Sbfack! Sound for Yellow Blue 
 
 f The Church Jor ever ! Down with PERKIN'S 
 
 Crew! r , D7 . 
 
 [for Blue! 
 
 No Courtiers! No Mock Patr'ots ! Sound 
 And not a Mouth but what, expanded large, 
 
 Does thrice a Threefcore Times its Load dif- 
 charge ; 
 
 And Rogue ! and Dog ! and Rafcal! and Tou lie! 
 At ev'ry Turn afiift the driving Cry. 
 
 P 2 Dreadful 
 
 (z) New Conflagrations'] Great Part of Paris-ftret ha~ 
 ving fome Years lince been on fire on both Sides the Way, 
 and the Houfes being, nearly all, Thatched*
 
 122 7& MOB I AD; or, 
 
 Dreadful Ado ! Ere clafli'd encounter'd Swords 
 
 To match fuch combating Hodgepodge of 
 
 Words ? 
 
 Were in Old Chaos the like Garboils found, 
 Or Jargon Brunts of fo embattled Sound ? 
 
 Scarce more fonorous in their turbid Cave 
 
 Heard MARO'S MUSE contending Tempefts 
 rave. 
 
 Like waving Reeds, when Gufts in Auguft vex, 
 Near lowmoft Sluice, the oozy Fens of EXE, 
 The brabbling Multitude, amid their Cry, 
 
 Flag where o'erwhelm'd, and with the Tide 
 comply. 
 
 If were an antick World of Franttcks pent, 
 To dance the hay, in wild Vagary, bent, 
 Scarce could the reftlefs Bedlams, winding, pace 
 Such tangled odd Viciflitude of Place : 
 
 Nor were they chang'd in Brain to Wolves, 
 they'd grin 
 
 To bark fo harm, fo horrible, a Din. 
 
 'Tis
 
 Battle of the Voice. 123 
 
 J Tis Blifs, they deem, diffracting tofs'd, to rowl ; 
 And fouleft Pudder recreates their Soul. 
 
 So when rough BOLUS'S bluft'ring Train 
 To foamy Mountains blow the Fluid Plain, 
 
 Tumult'ous (a) Fifh-Hogs tumbling Tricks 
 perform, 
 
 Aid the Waves Uproar, and enjoy the Storm. 
 
 Scarce ever Sheriff's Subftitute cou'd fee 
 Such rampant Bick'rings {hake our Heavy-Free, 
 Where, with authoritative Pikes of Am, 
 Bailiffs the Head-defending Cudgels thrafh. 
 Ne'er did fuch petulant Confufion rage, 
 
 In Weftgate-Quarter on (b) Whit-Monday's 
 Stage ; 
 
 Where bumping Thwacks and the Wail-rai- 
 fmg Drub 
 
 With vaunted Glory Blockhead-Heroes dub, 
 
 Till 
 
 (a] The Porpoifes, or Porcu-pifces. 
 
 (b) Every Whit-Monday tnere is in this Place erefted 
 a Stage for Cudgel playing, &c. round about which, as 
 well as on it, are ufually molt terrible Doings.
 
 124 ?& MOBIAD-, or, 
 
 Till Pates, fad Turn of War ! in dripping Flood, 
 Afham'd, give forth the honourable Blood. 
 Scarce feels our Clime more of Perdition full 
 
 tor 
 
 At a (c) Prcetorian Beating of the Bull, 
 
 When Their fage Worihips the Town-Pails 
 
 allow 
 
 [throw. 
 
 Colds, Fevers, Deaths, in chilling Streams, to 
 
 Elbows on Chefls repay from Elbows Grief, 
 And ftamp'd-on Feet by trampling feek Relief. 
 
 Eyes, by flapp'd Hat, with briny Rheum {truck 
 blind, 
 
 By like Inflidion try a Cure to find. 
 
 Bums butting ftickle; Hips, and darning Knees, 
 
 And rubbing Ankles, fore delighted, teaze. 
 
 Perukes, 
 
 (e) Pr&torian Bull-baiting.] About Three Weeks after 
 the Election of a new Mayor, a Bull ufes to be brought and 
 baited before his Door : At which Time the moft fcandalous 
 Abufcs are pra&ifed with Impunity, yea Applaufe, by ruffi- 
 an Butchers, &c. throwing Water, dipt up from the very 
 Kennel, &c. on all Perfons they can meet with, even in their 
 own Houfes. The Leathern City-Buckets, prepared for ex- 
 tinguishing Fires, are lent to them from the very Guild- 
 hall for the vile Purpofe. Rare Doings at Bath ! [The 
 
 tbr swing of Water has beenjorfoipe Years difus'd, 1770.]
 
 Battle of the Voice. 125 
 
 Perukes, now timely made the Pocket's Care, 
 
 Leave, apter to throw Knock, fhav'd Sconces 
 bare. 
 
 Nor flays expos'd (what Place of Wig fuppl/s) 
 The worfted Cap, diftind: with curious Dyes, 
 
 Though (c) IRIS dipp'd the Woof not, clam- 
 my wet, 
 
 And mining with the Pate's hot Spring of Sweat. 
 
 From off the Neck's hawl'd Handkerchief, or 
 Stock, 
 
 To fave from Throttle by a coll'ring Shock. 
 The Shirt difbutton'd fpreads its Bofom wide, 
 Or Sham,-^ worn clean no cleaneft Shirt to 
 
 hide ; rj r j 
 
 [defend, 
 
 Yet Gripes, ev'n where broad Shoulder-flays 
 Shall hideous Chafms in floutefl Dowlafs rend. 
 Nor Vefl of Drugget moft robuft fhall fcape,' 
 Nor Coat of Iron Kerfey, though with Cape 
 Enormous fortify'd, a ghaflly Width to gape.. 
 
 Woe 
 
 (0 Iris.) Alluding to MILTON'* M Iris dipp'd the 
 Woof,"
 
 126 The MOB IAD*, cr, 
 
 Woe were the Spot, where, chewing Ciids 
 
 of Spite, rr . 
 
 [Smite. 
 
 Fell Champions, met, renew'd the Knuckle- 
 
 * /.,. 
 
 There GIBBONS, bulky BOLT, tough TAN- 
 NER, FRY, 
 
 FOOT, HOOPER, ASHLEY, TWIGGS, might 
 boxing die, 
 
 And cryftal ISCA reek,- a ruby Flood I 
 And more than the (d) ADONIS run with Blood, 
 If fworn Authority, alert at hand, 
 Staff in terpofe not, and the Peace command I 
 
 Yet, maugre all piqued Braves in fiuiler'd 
 State, 
 
 Prick'd jealous on by Luft of Fame, or Hate, 
 And, prompted each by his fomenting Clan, 
 Strain brutal Force to prove the Better Man, 
 
 For 
 
 (J) Adonis.] A remarkable River, near Byllos in Pbceni- 
 cia, at certain Seafons, and on fome Occafions, appears 
 as if bloody, fuppos'd (fays MILTON) with the Blood of 
 THAMMUZ, yearly wounded. But the faid Phoenomenon 
 was long ago declared to be occafion'd by a kind of Minium 
 cr Red Earthy which the River brought away, when fwell'd 
 to unufual Heights.
 
 Battle of th* Voice. 125 
 
 For DAREMAN (of more overweening Pride 
 
 Than (e) GATH'S Huge Knight, who ISRA'L'S 
 Hoftdefy'd; 
 
 Than whofe none of the pictur'd CAESARS e'er 
 Such Jolt-Head did, or Eyes more flaring, bear ; 
 Firm-fet, and not of Stature high ; full grim. 
 His rough-hewn Afpect ; of flupendous Limb, 
 And Flem all callous) DAREMAN thus aloud 
 Provokes to Single-Loggerhead the Crowd : 
 
 c Produce a Man, ye Scolders of the Blue, 
 s If Men wou'd harbour with your beflial Crew, 
 e With Me in Manhood Skill and Force to try, 
 1 While ftand both Armies join'd Spectators by ! 
 ' And learn ye all from the Event how far 
 
 ' Ye may hereafter venture folid War : rr _ 
 
 [Boys, 
 
 e Bold though ye dare, by Females help'd and 
 c To form Attack with Blufterings and Noife : 
 ' His Groans repentant mall foon caufe to know, 
 ' Tis ours to vanquifh with effective Blow/ 
 
 Q_ He 
 
 (t) Gath's Knight.} GOLIAH of Gatb, a Giant.
 
 126 fbe. MOB I AD-, or, 
 
 He faid, clench 'd hard his maffy Fift, and ftruck 
 Ten mighty Wherrets with one fighting Look. 
 
 Promifc'ous Clamours .differently rife, 
 Some to explode, fome to carefs and praife : 
 
 But " Sound for HADDV !" and fcarce check'd 
 
 HuEzahs ! 
 
 ,'-'*' ., a "T r 
 
 So loud prevail from the proud Tellows Jaws, 
 That louring Blues, abafh'd, a while keep in 
 
 Their (J) Stink- Word, and fcarce dare a Hah! 
 to grin. 
 
 But fo not long : For murmur'd Talk around 
 
 The irritating Challenger refound : 
 
 Cc Thus has the braving Bully done, thus fpoke :< 
 
 " What ! no Man dare rebuke him with a 
 Stroke? 
 
 " No Match within ? Fly, fly, and bruit afar 
 
 " Th' Affront among the doughtier Chiefs of 
 
 War." 
 
 l 4ir-Ar*A^*t ?V,jh '"--via: -r TO t\ * 
 But FAME, induftr'ous with her Trump, before 
 
 More fleetly the diffufive Tidings bore, 
 
 And 
 (f) Viz. Sh-tfack
 
 Battle of the Voice. 127 
 
 And (g) ATE, in LONG- PHI LL'S diffembled 
 Form, 
 
 In CARNAGE blew of burning Ire a Storm : 
 
 " Hafte, Thou Dependance of our grateful 
 Hoft, 
 
 " And teach the faucy Tellows how to boaft : 
 
 <e But DAREMAN, if unactive here thou ftav, 
 
 j * 
 
 " From thee conveys the ufeful Dread away. 
 
 " Break thund'ring in. See ! where the Brag- 
 gard ftands, 
 
 " And proudly brandifhes provoking Hands, 
 " With Purpofe thee of Glory to beguile, 
 
 <c And brand thee with a Coward Lubber's 
 " Style." 
 
 (b) SHE fpoke, and clapp'd his Loins. Her 
 coaxing Breath 
 
 Infpires a Vow,- Within an Incb of Death 
 
 Qjz To 
 
 (g) ATE]. The Devil of a Goddefs, viz. of Rage, Dif- 
 cord, Revenge, Havock, &c. [-Vow in 1770 / bav e 
 really forgot the Bullies frames which Long-Phill and Carnage 
 flood for.] 
 
 (h) She.] That is, ATE in the Difguife of 
 PHILL.
 
 128 Me MOB IAD; or, 
 
 To facrifice to Great Revenge, on Foes, 
 Whole Hecatombs of Bofom-bafting Blows. 
 At once a fudden Clap of dreadful Roar 
 Burfls expeditious through the Archy Door j 
 For, compafs'd with a Rout of Boutefeus, 
 A Rout of ruggedeft deep-voiced Blues, 
 And dripping as he comes, the bulky Wight 
 Tow'rs, oftentatious of his Shoulders Height, 
 The wifh'd Occafion feizing. Flam'd his Eyes 
 At once fight, conquer, triumph, tyrannife. 
 SAMPSON is fung ft) lefs confident in Wrath 
 Addrefs'd to pommel HARAPHA of GATH. 
 
 As when Two warring Ships crowd fail to 
 wage 
 
 A marine Duel, with proportion'd Rage, 
 Broadfides exchang'd their furly Greetings throw, 
 Ere grappled they their boarding Prowefs (how, 
 So thefe, reciprocal, their Vollies dire 
 Of Malediction, ere the Clofure, fire, 
 
 And 
 (t) kfunp) viz. In MILTON'S Sampfon Agtmtftet t
 
 Battle of the Voice. 129 
 
 And with a belch'd-out miflile Fury warm 
 Defiance to defy, and Arm meet Arm. 
 
 Where, where** the Scoundrel? eager CARNAGE 
 
 cries. r 
 
 [replies. 
 
 c< Here, Rafcal, here, mov'd DARE MAN bold 
 PI! rafcal Thee, thou Dog / rejoin'd the firft, 
 " Villain, come on," the laft adds, and be curft. 
 Choler no farther Parle allows -, and Space 
 For Action made would longer Parle difgrace. 
 But, fhooting prone both with collected Might, 
 Their obvious Bulks commence fubftantial Fight; 
 Each Lefthand's Clutches tugging grafp a Foe, 
 And Righthands clos'd redouble Blow for Blow. 
 
 So when grim MULCIBER, for JOVE his Sire, 
 Laborious forg'd the forky Bolts of Fire, 
 Tenacious one the wizzing Steel did guide, 
 The ftronger Arm the pond'rous Hammer ply'd. 
 
 The clubby Fifts on Teeth & Trunk refound, 
 
 And feem the Brawn with mortal Thumps to 
 
 pound. 
 
 Cherts
 
 130 ?he MOB I AD-, or, 
 
 Chefts bruifen jarr, the Ribs as matter'd cram, 
 And bleeding Jawbones clatter, every Dafh. 
 
 Each like (k) EPEUS aims deftru&ive Pains, 
 
 t** 
 
 And firm as an EURYOLUS fuftains. 
 Both as (/) ENTELLUS Bang with Bang requite, 
 And hard as DARES bear the falling Weight. 
 Head againft Head their ftunning Efforts knock, 
 Like Rams at Duel for the Female Flock ; 
 Nor Arm will more Neck at Advantage fpare 
 Than would aHocKLEv'sMaftifF-huggingBear. 
 But Legs in-lock'd Antagonift to throw 
 Oblige that hard Advantage to forego. 
 The Head retriev'd, loft Moments to redeem 
 Of fham'd Inaction, wafh'd by Nofe a-ftream, 
 Leaps up elaftic, and Reprifal draws 
 Of fcurvy Blood leak'd from the loofen'd Jaws. 
 
 Surrounding 
 
 (k) EPEUS and EURYOLUS.] Names of Two ftout 
 Combatants at the Funeral Games for PATROCLUS in 
 HOMER'S Iliad. 23. 
 
 (/) E-NT E LLUS and DARES.] The Two Champions at 
 the Games in honourary Memory of ANCHISES in VIRG. 
 
 ^neid, 5, 
 
 "
 
 Battle of the Voice. 131 
 
 Surrounding Routs exclaim more Space to 
 clear, 
 
 And wheel, a living Amphitheatre, 
 
 Whilft fome behind the circling Tumult fpring 
 
 By Fits to overlook the buttling Ring. 
 
 By Wagers fome their Wimes would fupport ; 
 
 Some gnarr to fright, and Courage fome exhort > 
 
 And partial Sidings to moleft or aid, 
 
 Which multiply the Combat, are afTay'd. 
 
 Soon fpurting Noftrils wou'd dye red the Floor 
 With Inundations, mixt, of factious Gore, 
 If ftill remifs of fwagg'ring Duty lay 
 The Sons of (in) THEMIS of fubaltern Sway 5 
 Or niggard prov'd of Breath and fwelter'd 
 
 Greafe, 
 
 In troublous Domineering for the Peace. 
 But foon their Highnefles, whofe huffie Lift 
 Can, arbitrary, bid the World affift, 
 
 I ' M < ' > "I 
 
 All > J 
 
 AHarm d 
 
 (m) THEMIS]. The Goddefs of Juftice. Thefc her 
 Underling Sons mean the ConftabJes.
 
 132 ?he MORI AD; or y 
 
 AlarnVd at fuch bold Neighbourhood of War, 
 With ftretching Necks up ftart within the Bar ; 
 When thus (n) CYANUS, by officious Words 
 To fire his Troop to Adion, Speech affords : 
 
 x 
 
 te Compeers in Port ! Do thus our Palms 
 " retain 
 
 ee Thefe dread Infignia of our high Domain, 
 " Staffs of Controul, which legally fetch down 
 " All who not own in Proxy US the Crown ? 
 " And in the Prefence, in Our very Court, 
 te Shall Shfacks of Infurgency make fport ? 
 I fay,*. Before Us, US, whofe awful Word 
 " MARS ought obey, and drop his lifted Sword, 
 tc (MARS, in the Garb of ftoncing Grenadier ', 
 
 " Whod (0} Tall rdnk'd with Tall PRUSSIA 
 Guards appear) 
 
 "His 
 
 (n) GEORGE COMINGS. See before, page . The 
 Cyanus properly is the Flower call'd the blue Corn bottle^ and 
 which our Country People name Pretty- Johns. 
 
 (o) 1 he King of Pruffia's Delight in very tall Men for 
 his Body Guard is not unknown. '[7be late King, Father 
 of the prefenty is meant. 1770.]
 
 Eattk of the Voice. 133 
 
 <f His Sword, though for a captiv'd Trull 
 
 'ydrawn, 
 
 C Or to retake Habiliments from Pawn ; 
 " Shall Slaves of Orange Badge, fo het'rodox ! 
 
 <e With ours thus interchange pugnacious 
 Knocks 5 
 
 ^ e Nor W E, on whom dares rife no battering 
 Joint, 
 
 " Or ev'n a Finger rear affaultmg Point, 
 <e Fall in, chaftizing, and Big-ton'd declare, 
 < With Magifterial Vifage, WHO WE ARE ? 
 
 <c Go to, then; let our brandiih'd Arms 
 
 maintain 
 <c US notfeleff to bear thofe Arms in vain. " 
 
 He faid. His Mates of Dignity unite 
 To fpring upon the tuftllng Crowd in Fight, 
 Together huddling, fome from off the Bench, 
 Each with imperious Standard in his Clench, 
 And back by their arrefted Collars hawl 
 The Outer Orbits, as for bailefs Thrall 5 
 
 R And
 
 134 ^ MOBIAD; or, 
 
 And with fierce Features, in a Thunder's Tone, 
 
 Cry, " Keep the Peace ! WE reprefent the 
 Throne. 
 
 Their dreadful Charge tKe inmoft Circles hear, 
 Refign the Battle, and to PafTage clear : 
 For JOVE lends oft' to LAW terrific Grace, 
 And fhakes his ^GIS in a Rebel Face. 
 
 The Duelifts (though Pride difowns Enough^ 
 Howe'er bray'd Jelly, of the martial Cuff) 
 Permit to break their pertinacious Fangs, 
 Andfuffer Shelter 'mid their friendly Gangs. 
 
 So (p) when the TROJANS, forward in the 
 
 Strife rr ._ 
 
 [Life, 
 
 For claim'd PATROCLUS, fpoil'd of Arms and 
 Heard, from the Rampart by PELIDES trod, 
 Tremendous as of fome deftroying God, 
 His ireful Call, the Valiant felt Difmay, 
 And even PRIAM'S bravefl Sons gave way. 
 
 Our 
 
 (p) Whtn the Trtjans.) See HOM, II. lib. 18.
 
 Battle of the Voice. 135 
 
 Our fever'd Heroes, fmear'd with. Muck and 
 Gore, 
 
 Baulk'd Anger folace with Revenge in Store ; 
 And, lugg'd indignant each a diverfe Way, 
 
 Drink, hauk, drink, fwear, drink, brag a 
 juture Fray j 
 
 From the fwoln Face half wipe the bloody Dirt, 
 And Breeches repoflefs with Tails of Shirt. 
 
 Difafters fad one guilty Wretch betide, 
 Who dar'djun-franchib'd, join the Yellow Side, 
 And, that he might the baftingFiftsefchew 
 Of an 'oer- matching and revengeful Blue, 
 Had from the ope Piazza of the Hall 
 Slunk in, where to repeat illegal Bawl: 
 For, there detected foon, he's clafp'd by Throat, 
 And charg'd with lawlefs bold Intent to vote ; 
 And, with his Shirt, Skin, Hair, & Jerkin ragg'd, 
 Is to (^) the temporary EaflilU dragg'd. 
 
 R 2 Somewhat 
 
 (q) Temporary Baftille.) What is call'd the Back Gate, to 
 which the Conilables arbitiarily, of their own Authority % 
 commit, by Night, or for a while.
 
 138 7he MOBIAD-, or, 
 
 * CERES, the Solace and Support of Life, 
 Invigorates with ftronger Voice the Strife j 
 DEVON'S (b] POMONA helps the Verbal Broil, 
 
 Or cooper'd (c) BACCHUS haps to reinforce the 
 Coil, 
 
 Now Entries flow hot with a Urine Sea ; 
 And rattling Walls think Water-Engins play, 
 From whofe ftain'd Corners divers froathy Rills 
 Shape Courfe in reeking Conflux o'er the Hills ; 
 
 In fuch quick Torrents the rank Streams com- 
 bine, ro . 
 
 [Brine. 
 
 That EXE grows warm and brackim with the 
 And if well- ftation'd Millmen frugal were, 
 They their ernbarrel'd Stock of Seg might fpare. 
 
 M 
 
 Eels haply think the Tide does downward 
 drive, 
 
 And feafon'd Trout? fear pickling while alive; 
 
 Seiz'd 
 
 S { >#-;V*^'V,WtM^v.^ 
 
 into Malt) as well as for brewing afterwards. So Ptmona 
 is put for Cyder, and Bacchus for Wine. 
 
 (*) Ceres] The Goddefs of Corn and Tillage She is 
 by a Metonymy us'd frequently in Poetry for Wheat, Barley, 
 Bread, &c
 
 . Battle of the Voice. 139 
 
 Seiz'd with Vertigo may the fuddled Dace 
 Be feen to ramble on the River's Face ; 
 Not with intoxicating Berries dos'd, 
 But ftronger Fumes fwift from the P fing-Poft. 
 
 Libation made to DISCORD, and renew'd T 
 Spent Vigour, -.they again, at Hall, intrude > 
 With rallied Hubbub, and reftore the Feud.j 
 As fiery Bulldogs, when their Shamble-Lords 
 Slip from their urgent Necks retraining Cords, 
 Whofe well-prov'd Holders drip a foamy Gore, 
 Spring furious at the Bull, tho' tam'd before, 
 So fiercely eager the chear'd Party bound, 
 
 Ope-mouth'd, more inftant for the Conq'ring 
 Sound. [moifltnd Foe : 
 
 Juft Dread ftrikes Silence through th' !/- 
 The roaring Hdlf-drunk with new Valour glow. 
 Diftiearted thofe fhrink to the Left and Right; 
 Thefe, glory'ng, in the Centre brave the Fight. 
 
 Yet Courage foon reanimates the Fray, 
 For timely Aid huzzahs not far away, 
 
 Then
 
 140 Jbe MOBIAD-, or, 
 
 Then breaks all-hideous on the vauntful Crew, 
 And for theConqueft warms the vanquifh'dfew. 
 
 Lefs Rage the MYRMIDONS, on ILION'S Plain, 
 
 +-- 
 To fave the Navy, and avenge the Slain, 
 
 Urg'd than impels the Succours to the Brawl: 
 Nor flinch the Hardy of the adverfe Squawl. 
 Not with fuperior Fury is purfued 
 A Dog in PafTage near a feather'd Brood, 
 
 When with up-briftled Plumes, and Quills a- 
 fpread, 
 
 The fcolding Hen, ope-bill'd, aflerts the Shed, 
 
 Than what tranfports th' Affailants to the 
 Charge : 
 
 Nor, grinning furly, with Jaws open large, 
 The Growler on the plumed Heroin turns 
 Like Ire as which each grim Defendant burns. 
 Dire the reviv'd Conteft : The equal Routs 
 
 Pelmell aim Havock with contending Shouts. 
 
 ',.'''- i 
 
 Shoves repel Shoves, Breaft - Bulkings meet 
 
 Rebuff; 
 
 But woe the Shins not tann'd to Kicking-proof ! 
 
 Yet
 
 Battle of the Voice. 139 
 
 Yet what terrene fhall firm exifl for ay ? 
 Lungs tho' of Brafs were fubject to Decay: 
 Snorts of gigantic Noflrils muft, at length, 
 Own, in fhort Pantings, a Decline of Strength. 
 Too long, too high, the human Organs fprain'd 
 Crack, as in th* Adage Bow too much con- 
 
 ftrain'd. 
 But though, at length, maim'd Voices barely 
 
 croak > [provoke, 
 
 And ev'n craz'd Murmurs ftrangling Coughs 
 
 Vet fault'ring Grumbles mutter harfh the Cry, 
 And widen'd Mouths mutely a Roar imply : 
 Refolv'd, in loft Refort, to win Regard, 
 Like Cocks, and Villains hang'd, by dying bard. 
 
 So, at old CHEVY, (an oldBardling tells , 
 'Though fmil'd at by our modern Infidels) - 
 When lopping Sword, by nether Chop, has won 
 The Pedeftals of flrenuous WITHRINGTON, 
 Though Lofs of Blood his lower Stroke im-1 
 
 [rears, 
 On Stumps, the beft he may, he Faulchion > 
 
 And, to laft Gafp, defcending Backfword I 
 dares. J 
 
 End of the Fifth Canto. 
 
 S CANTO VI.
 
 140 The MOB1AD-, or, 
 
 r> # S Sr> # f8j &. 
 
 CANTO VI. ^ 
 
 / ^ H E Vocal Ammunition fpent, within, 
 
 A A while, furbated, flinch'd the Rage of 
 Din; 
 
 And but thin Parties, mazy, here and there, 
 Without, light ikirmiming with Hahs I pickeer : 
 Tho' %uiir$ deny'd, yet bought Refedion drains 
 
 Parch'd Legions, panting, from the hot Cam- 
 paigns; 
 
 And though mixt Numbers ftand oppos'd their 
 
 Ground, , , 
 
 [wound -, 
 
 Battle, ftruck hoarfe, ftrives but with Lours to 
 Or, folitary, a rare random Cry, 
 Feebly aflay'd, pops difregarded by. 
 
 But renovated Coil not long allows 
 A mute Engagement of but hoftilc Brows ; 
 For Hoftels divers, near adjacent, yield 
 
 Late Invalids, recover'd, to the Field ; 
 
 With
 
 Battle of the Voice* 141 
 
 With EfTence arm'd of quick-reftoring Mault, 
 More ftimulated to re-join AfTault, 
 
 And, like fell Hounds from 'Fault reclaim'd,-*- 
 
 more ftrong 
 To open) as they rudely pufh along. 
 
 Now, rallying the fcatter'd Routs of Blue, 
 Full by the Sconfe fuperior to the View, 
 Ample his hairy Cheft, VENTOSO ftandsi 
 A ftern Colofs, and waves his horny Hands, 
 Demanding momentary Paufe ; and, large 
 Expanding Jaws, refufcitates the Charge : 
 Ardor full-fcarlet kindles in his Face, 
 Which, like a Comet, fhoots athreat'ningBlaze; 
 
 And thus, with well - ale'd Voice, prepar'd to 
 
 twang 
 Rafh Defamation, belches hoarfe Harangue : 
 
 " How ! Yield the Day ? Oh Shame ! oh 
 
 new Difgrace ! [- Race ? 
 
 " WE, WE the Day, - and to the Canter 
 
 " Who aim fchifmatically to trapan 
 " Our Catechife with their Chief-End-o-Man : 
 3 2 A
 
 142 Me MOB I AD-, or, 
 
 ? A fqueamifh Crew, who'll tremble if We 
 , fwear; 
 
 " But in Damtfd-Lying take a tenfold Share : 
 " The Calf 's-Head-feafted Villains, who deride 
 * e Our Curfe as caufelefs on the Martyr's Tide : 
 cc Who wou'd again our Church to Stable turn, 
 " And juft-made Surplices to Tinder burn, 
 
 " As but old Smocks of BABYLON'S old 
 
 Whore 5 rr> , 
 
 [Pow r ; 
 
 <e Beat down the 7% and climb again to 
 
 <f Who at our nodding Crefts of Oak-boughs 
 fneer, 
 
 ec And white Rofe from our very Bofoms tear : 
 " What! fhall We, daftardiz'd to Silence, feem 
 c< To give the Viftory of Voice to them ? 
 " Again that malapert Sleeve-laughing Crew 
 
 ,v In Mourning hang our (a) MAUD'LEN daub'd 
 
 with Blue ? 
 
 " Which, 
 ot ^i.; rij-.aVy -^3/ 
 
 (a) Maudlen, &c.) Maud\en^ or properly Magdalen^ 
 Gallows, the Execution Tree for High Treafon, Felonies, 
 &c. committed within the County or City of Exeter. 
 Divers fuper-eminent Perfonages of the Blue Army (among 
 Whom a Blind man was one) having had the Whim to paint 
 
 their
 
 Bdttle of the Voice. 143 
 
 " Which,-*blaft their Peepers /might urge to 
 deftroy 
 
 " In Flames of black Novembers Fifth their Joy; 
 
 " And from fack'd Conventicles, but for 
 
 Law ! - r 7 . 
 
 [(b) BAXTER draw ! 
 
 " Pews, Canting - Tubs, and Books of 
 " I fay, my Bloods ! mall of th' Old Rump the 
 
 [recede ? 
 " Think we will ere from Cuftom's Right 
 
 <e No : Sooner let the guilty (c) Sun be gay 
 " Upon the Royal Martyr's facred Day ! 
 
 " No, my brave Bullies, with rough Shocks of 
 Breath 
 
 " Firft tempeft their fanatic Souls to death : 
 
 " Your 
 
 their Houfes, fignificantly, of that Colour, to {hew their 
 Extravagance of Zeal ;-^it happened that, on their lofmg 
 an Election, fome concealed Wags of the contrary Party 
 daub'd this Gallows partly of that Colour, and withal hung 
 ragged black Crape upon it, for Mourning. 
 
 (b) Baxter's Books.} James's Meeting-Houfe is, or I well 
 know was, furnifhed with BAXTER'S Works, in feveral 
 Volumes, Foiio. 
 
 (c) Sun be gay.) I have heard it confidently averr'd in 
 EXETER, that the Sun never fhines clear on the ^oth of 
 January. But they err'd egregioufly, efpecially while the 
 Old Style continued among us.
 
 144 Tfe MOBIAD; or, 
 
 " Your Bellows of diftended Lungs prepare 
 te To blaft the Pimps with ruthfulleft Defpair : 
 <c Enforce your Sinews*; clofe in firm Array ; 
 
 " And plunge, o'er-turning, in the Depth of 
 Fray." 
 
 He fpoke ; and, ending v thrice with wilful Fift 
 Beat up new-levy'd Anger to affift. 
 
 Th' Imperial Bead with Tail's Rib-laming 
 Strokes 
 
 His Choler thus to boiling Height provokes. 
 
 The Azure Forces huddling clofe around, 
 Feel the Oration's Charm, and club a Sound ; 
 
 A Sound ? Not (d) MARS fo loudly roaring 
 flood, 
 
 When DIOMEP had drawn his rabid Blood : 
 Jn Vollies raised, loud, louder, and more loud, 
 Tempeft'ous Onfets vex th' invaded Crowd. 
 The Orbs of Sight with flaming Outrage burn, 
 While Buftlings work Confufion's dire Return. 
 
 But- 
 (d) Mars, &c.) See HOM. II. lib. v.
 
 Battle of the Voice. 145 
 
 But ftorms the Onfet unrepell'd ? Oh ! can 
 Stand paffive the infulted Tellow Clan ? 
 As foon could frifky Dancing-Mafters be 
 Of folid Head, and fit from Fidging free. 
 
 As foon could Smiths their Trough's black 
 
 Puddle fwig t 
 And Tuckers fuddle on their flimy Sig. 
 
 As foon Shoemakers, in a Shilling rich, 
 Could in a Garret on a Monday flitch. 
 
 As foon could (e) CLACK, who all Things 
 
 knows and more, 
 Whofe Lip with Arts and Eloquence runs o'er, 
 
 His Tongue's perpetual Motion flop, and hear 
 His Mug-Mates take of Talk fome little Share. 
 No : Wroth BENANAIC, bulky, tall, in Word 
 And Act robuft, with dauntlefs Stingo fpurr'd, 
 A forward Chief, of envy'd Fame among 
 The high-fam'd Mighty of the Safron'd Throng, 
 Mouths thus, by Stretch of eager Tone to fire 
 
 His touchy Cohorts with intenfer Ire : 
 
 " League 
 
 (e) CLACK.) There's a' numerous Race of thofe Clacks, 
 I inftance them in the general Family.
 
 146 ?he MOBIAD-, or, 
 
 * * 
 
 ie League of the Orange hear ! Brave Telkw- 
 
 Boys, . 
 
 [enjoys, 
 
 " Whofe Hue the Sov'reign Mettal GOLD 
 
 <( And Guineas boaft the (J) Name : Shall 
 beftial Force 
 
 <f Of (g) Hogfty Savages uncheck'd ha' Courfe; 
 
 cc Who're rather like foul Swine themfelves fo 
 
 'iu ' >>* * ' J ' '"'-' ' 
 
 much, r 
 
 [touch ! 
 
 " Scarce naft'eft JEW (ti) the filthy Herd would 
 
 " Shall Mifcr'ants, bred in Greafe, Blood, Draff, 
 
 and Dung, 
 
 J Tongue r 
 
 <l Like Vixen Scolds brave Men to Tilt of 
 
 Shall 
 
 (f) Name*) Viz. of Yellow-Boys. 
 
 (g) Hogjly Savages i &c.] The Hog- ferving Slaves of the 
 Shambles, oc^ N. B. 'A Hog was heretofore hieroglyphi- 
 
 * cally pictured to exprefs an Enemy to Good Manners, 
 c and a prophane Perfon. For the Eaftern Nations did fo 
 
 * hate a Hog for his filthy Difpofition, that it was a Crime 
 
 * for fome of their Priefts to touch it.' We make our BEN- 
 ANAK (or Son of ANAK) exclaim principally againft thofe 
 Enemies to Good- Manners, feeing many of them are 
 [i. e. about the Time of writing were] the Ringleaders, 
 Strength, and Pride of the Party. 
 
 (h) Filthy Herd.} Our Journeymen Butchers are [i e. 
 they at the Date of the Poem were] probably, in the ge- 
 neral, the moft beaftly filthy Fellows, of the Profeffion, in 
 the Univerfe. . Scavengers and Ridders of Bog-Pits appear 
 
 not fo naufeous. [How they are now, 1770. I know not.] 
 
 . .'.'.! f * j'; "
 
 Battle of the Voice. 147 
 
 t{ Shall fuch as from wild BOGLAND'S (/) Rap- 
 parees 
 
 " Denomination take, as beft agrees, 
 " Whofe ugly Hawing to our Teeth denotes 
 
 " Their Prologue to th' old Play of Cutting 
 
 'Throats -, r r _, 
 
 [of ROME, 
 
 " Shall fuch mere Mongrels, the Half-fpawn 
 " Againft Whole Proteftants refiftlefs come ? 
 " Shall Caitiffs whoop, as 'twere for RebelWar, 
 " Like Varlet Clans led on by Traytor MAR ? 
 
 c No, Liegemen, no : The Perkinites fhall 
 
 know r n 
 
 [more flow. 
 
 " Our Strength keeps firmer, as it moves 
 
 ** Old Prophecies, I Ve heard, in Terms de- 
 clare, rt r . 
 
 [Hair. 
 
 " The TURK mall fall by Men of (k) Yellow 
 
 " And man* t our chriftian Yellow Knots fubdue 
 
 " The more than heathenifh Cockades of Blue? 
 
 T They 
 
 (i) Rapparees.) A Tory or a Rapparee originally means 
 the fame Perfon. 
 
 (k) Yellow Hair.} See BAYLE'S Did. Art. MAHOMET S 
 Note [99].
 
 148 We MOB IAD; or, 
 
 <{ They {hall : I fee how they inglorious droop 
 
 " Ev'n on the Cockfcombs of their (I) Liv'ry 
 Troop ; 
 
 cc They fliall : I fee already how they hang 
 " Lithe on theNumfkulls of the beggar'd Gang, 
 < c As if from that Old tawdry (m) Vefture torn 
 " By Madam BLOWZA'S foggy Buttocks worn, 
 " Which, thriftlefs, fhe converted late to Shreds 
 <c (Our Ridicule !) to deck their ftupld Heads. 
 
 " And though in later Cloaks fome- Grander 
 
 Wishts rp . 
 
 [Sights, 
 
 " Appear (ri) Town- Whiffle: s to our diftant 
 
 " Them 
 
 (/) Livery -Troop.} The Attendants on the Honourable 
 High- Sheriff at the Ailizes 1737 or 1738, wore Blue Cockade^ 
 in profefs'd Token of that Gentleman's being of the Blue 
 Party. [Many have followed the Example fince, 1770.} 
 
 (m) Vefture torn, &c. On a certain former Ele&ion^ a 
 particular very fat Madam (whofe Hufband broke loon after, 
 paying about ooo Nichils in the Pound) tore up her Blue Silk 
 Gown to make Cockades therewith, all the blue or purple 
 Ribbon in thefe Parts being already ufed, and inefficient. 
 
 (n) The Cily Waits, See before, Canto 3. Note, 
 feveral Dons of the Party have [i. e. Had then] lately, 
 by Agreement and in Concert, made themfelves blue Cloaks : 
 And three or four of them appearing in a Knot together 
 have been at a Diftance verily miftaken for the IPaitt.
 
 Battle of the Voles. 149 
 
 " Them future Days with Black fo ftain'd (hall fee 
 
 " They'd, mournful, ferve in Death's dark 
 Pageantry. 
 
 " Strut they diftinft the while ; till, fham'd, 
 
 they view 
 
 " Not Blindmem Huts alone affect their Hue, 
 " But (o) Coblers petty Shops, in mimic Pride, 
 " That mocks unwittingly, like vainly dy'd. 
 " But let not Talk from Aclion you withold: 
 
 " Prove right Your Selves, or than Yourfelves 
 
 more bold : 
 
 [Shout, 
 
 " Engrofs the Winds, and, with an Army's 
 " Blow hufli theVap'rings of the lavvlefs Rout j 
 cc A Shout fo mortifying, it may quell 
 " Their Hope, fond Wifh, and Longing to rebel. 
 
 " Strain hard your Frame, and with Elboic 
 Thruft, 
 
 " Bear down the faucy Headlongs to the Duft. 
 T 2 " Though 
 
 (o) Cotter's, &c.) A Cobler'sShop fituate near St. O!ave's 
 Church. The Warden of that Parifh, in his over-boiling 
 Love to the Blue Party, painted the fame of a very deep 
 Blue, Windows, Stall, and all.
 
 150 Ibe MOBIAD-, on, 
 
 " Though (as the Adlor in the loyal Play 
 c Call'd CATO, in our Play-Houfe, us'd to fay) 
 " Though Mortals may not full Succefs infure, 
 <e Let us deferve it, and do nobly more." 
 
 He ends. (/>) CAMILLUS, for Triumphal 
 Grace, 
 
 Like the Gods Statues with vermilionM Face, 
 Did fcarce in Cheeks fuch bloody Luftre mow, 
 As that wherewith his fiery Features glow. 
 He ends. The hardy Bands of (q) J9^atteft 
 Their Potence with prevailing Voice the beft, 
 Whofe ev'ry Throat with (r) JUNO'S feems to vie 
 In STENTOR'S Form, as pum'd her ARGIVES fly; 
 
 Or 
 
 (p) Camillas.'] CAMILLUS, the Roman Di&ator, in his 
 Triumph for taking the VEII, enter'd ROME in a Chariot 
 drawn by Four milk-white Horfes, with his Face colour'd 
 with Vermilion. But fuch Horfes fince the Expulfion of 
 the TAkqyiNs had not been allow'd but to JUPITER 
 and APOLLO : And the Statues of the Gods were wonted 
 to be painted with Vermilion. 
 
 (q) Buff.] That formerly was the Term of Diftin&ion 
 aflumed by the then low Party, Sound and Buff" being the 
 different Shiboletbs then, as Blue and Yellow now are, 
 
 (r) Juno, &c.) Vid. HOM. II. lib, 5.
 
 Battle cf the Voice. 151 
 
 Or (s) THUNDERSON'S, reviv'd TERTULLUS, 
 when 
 
 His Rattle feeks to lead our Leading Men. 
 More eager than the Sting of burning Thirft, 
 And rapid as ere July Thunders burft. 
 Right gallant as lift BRITAIN'S nettled Sons 
 To fvyinge th' infulting, proud, predacious DONS, 
 They penetrate th' inimic Prefs, and ply 
 
 Leaps, Reels, Stamps, Pufhes, to fupport the 
 Day. 
 
 The Hall again takes through rubb'd Gate- 
 way in 
 
 Stir, Freak, Rant, Hurlyburly, ftunning Din, 
 That, as with colic Throes convuls'd, the Hall 
 
 Groans hideous, twing'd with the inteftine 
 Bawl. 
 
 Scarce rack'd VESUVIUS quakes endanger* d fo, 
 When heard internal Storms of Fire to blow. 
 
 In 
 
 (s} Thunderfon."] If there be no noify, mobbifli, hot Son 
 of Thunder, &c who thus by the Nofe feeks to lead our Lea- 
 ders, let him be fuppos'd only a Son of mere Poetic Fancy*
 
 152 ?be MOB-IAD; or, 
 
 In gen'ral Tumult fumes the Conflict : Wide, 
 Yet firmly denfe, the Swarms of either Side 
 With fierce Variety of Combat ftrive 
 Through either Hoft Difcomfiture to drive. 
 
 A Thoufand Feats, well worth an EX'TER'S 
 
 Praife, rr 
 
 [Lays : 
 
 And thrice three Thoufand Clamours claim our 
 But each Exploit would, but half told, prolong 
 Jn Folio Tomes, defective yet, -the Song, 
 Wrath thro' the Whole in Conflagration fpreads, 
 And agonifing Spite Infection fheds ; 
 As mortal Bites of Dogs infane inftil 
 Like Fury, and a catching Luft to kill. 
 Each Individual chafes in Look to grow 
 A Phalanx fit to ftem th* unnumber'd Foe j 
 As in each Arm, or Mouth, Decifion lay 
 Of Struggle fole to terminate the Fray ; 
 Or each impuls'd with more than Roman Zeal 
 Durft die (t) devoted fa his Party's Weal, 
 
 (t) Dovoted.] The old ROMANS entertain'd an enthufi- 
 
 aftic
 
 Battle of the Voice. 153 
 
 And, bold as CURTIUS in his brave Career, 
 
 Leap'd in the Gulph, could plunge in Seas 
 of Beer. 
 
 But doubtful ftill to which the Day will fall : 
 
 No (u) Ballance JOVE fufpends to weigh the 
 Bawl. 
 
 Nor Thee, ASTR^EA ! with thy Scales of Gold, 
 Eyes, dim orjaundic'd, in the Hall behold* 
 
 Thy Bench in Heav'n by Faith they view, and 
 
 deem 
 
 [Beam. 
 
 The Scale of HADDY'S Foes fhall (x) kick the 
 
 But 
 
 aflic Notion that in Cafes of extreme Danger from their 
 Enemies in Battle, &c. &c. if a worthy Perfon among 
 them folemnly devoted himfelf to Perdition, and rufh'd on 
 certain Death amid the Enemy, he thereby wrought Salvati- 
 on for his Countrymen, &c. Many madly thus deftroyM 
 themfelves. The Earth opening once in the Forum, the 
 Augurs declar'd it could never be fill'd up till the Thing in 
 which confifted the Strength of the State was caft into it, 
 whereupon M. CURTIUS, afking whether it confifted in 
 any Thing more than Arms and Courage, arm'd himfelf 
 Cap-a-pee, and mounting a ftately Horfe, devoted himfelf 
 accordingly, ahd rode direftly into the Gulph. 
 
 (a) Ballance.^ Vid. HOM. II. lib. xxii. & VIRG. JEn. 
 lib. xii, 
 
 (#) Kick the Beam.] See MILT. Par. loft, Book iv. ver. 
 100.
 
 154 ^ MOB IAD; or, 
 
 fiut what of that ? Too oft' we fighing know; 
 Thy Scales Above affedt not Scales Below. 
 
 ^[ HOMER and MARo,~with tjieir Gods of 
 Old, 
 
 To ferve the Purpofes of Verfe, were bold j 
 And THEM brought down, in Vehicles of Air* 
 With Mortals in ungodly Strife to mare. 
 Good MILTON, haply, made a fpice too free 
 Both with the DEVIL and . THE DEITY. 
 Monaftic Bards th' old Painim Gods forfake ; 
 
 But (y) GODS as 'twere of fainted Deadmen 
 make. 
 
 Thefe Volunteers ere beats a Drum engage 1 
 'Gairift Infidels a Crufade War to wage, 
 And fight Heav'n's Battle with infernal Rage.j_ 
 To Purpofe more approv d might haply We 
 
 (If bent to tamper with Machinery) 
 
 Convene 
 
 (y) Gods as 'twere.] To afcribe the Attributes of GOD 
 to a Creature feems really to deify that Creature. Such as in 
 any Place, and perhaps in a great many Places, pray to a 
 Man, though call'd a Saint 9 muft imagine him differently 
 prefentf and to bear Jnvokers in many 9 perhaps all, Places.
 
 Battle of the Voice. 155 
 
 Convene a Chapter of thofe Saints who bear 
 O'er Trades and Traders tutelary Care, 
 Who, kenning thus our Garboils rage fo large, 
 Such Havock faft'ning on their divers Charge, 
 Might in the Clouds afiemble, and their Heads 
 (Surrounding which a Blaze of Glory fpreads) 
 In Council join how War awhile might ceafe, 
 And made be Ten Months Interval of Peace. 
 
 (z) St BLAISE, who (if Monks neither 
 fib nor doat) 
 
 Invok'd, whip ! prefto ! heals a (z)fquinzyd 
 Throat, 
 
 Though with his Flefh in bleeding Tatters 
 rent, 
 
 Might come th' endanger'd Combers Prefident. 
 V To 
 
 (z) St. Bla'tfe, &c.] The Legend aflurcs, that Perfons, 
 having a fore Throat, who pray to St BLAISE for Help, 
 are ftrangely cur'd. Wool-combers look upon him as the Au- 
 thor and Inventor of their Art and Trade, and reprefent and 
 pi&urehim as their Patron, with a Wool-comb in his Hand, 
 The Suppgfal might pofiibly be founded on his havmg (as 
 'tis pretended) his Flefh torn by fuch-like Inftrument as a 
 Comb.
 
 156 The MOB IAD-, or, 
 
 To fave her Coopers from a mortal Quarrel 
 Might interpofe St. MARY of the (b) BARREL. 
 To juft St. JOSEPH ought our MUSE refer 
 The tugging Joiner and the Carpenter. 
 Bricklayers mould St. GREGORY obtain ; 
 The Grace of St. ELOI fhou'd Goldfmitbs gain. 
 
 St. ANN mould Grooms amft, though none in- 
 voke j 
 
 Ev'n Butchers claim St. MARY OF THE OAK ; 
 St. JAMES to Hatters might his Goodnefs grant. 
 Upbolfters, fav'd from Fall, might praifeVENANT. 
 St. LE'NARD fhou'd no Stone-cutter forfake, 
 Nor MARY OF LORETTO thofe who Bake. 
 For 'Taylors the beheaded Saint had flood 
 Who duck'd Repentants in Old JORDAN'S Flood. 
 St. CRISPIN might his Gentlecraft relieve : 
 St. EUSTACE Aid to Innholders fhou'd give : 
 
 The Flea'd Apoftle with his Knife might fide! 
 The broil'd St. LAURENCE Safety to provide > 
 For Curriers and tough Tanners of the Hide j j 
 
 The 
 " ?.v -'T'-'>fjinfi;j*i 
 
 (a) Barrel.] Sta. Maria de Copella : Copella fignifying 
 
 in EngKJb A Barrel.
 
 Battle of the Voice. 157 
 
 The laft-nam'd Saint might in like Wardfhip hug 
 Thofe who apply or vend th* aperient Drug : 
 Nor leave of Aid the Woollen drapers bare, 
 Nor who at Wholefale deal in Staple Ware. 
 The fwarthy Artifls fweating at the Forge 
 Should draw, unafking, to their Help St. 
 
 GEORGE; 
 Carmen St. VINCENT have a Guardian Saint ; 
 
 SAVIOR keep Sadler s fafej LUKE thofe who 
 
 paint. 
 
 Nay (b) JOB perhap for fome had prefent been 
 Who've done lewd Worfhip to the (c) Cyprean 
 
 Queen -, 
 
 Since divers might, on Scrutiny, be found 
 With aking Bones who hoarfly fnuffle Sound ! 
 
 Thefe, and the reft, whom canonizing ROME 
 Appoints o'er Craft/men might in Vifion come 
 V 2 To 
 
 (b) Job.] JOB has the Honour of being efteem'd the 
 Patron of fuch as have the Venereal Malady. 
 
 (c) Cyprean Queen.} VENUS, lewdly worfhipp'd, in Old 
 Time, in the Ifland of CYPRUS.
 
 158 7&? MO BIA D-, or, 
 
 To Synod in the Sky 3 and (fince fo jar 
 joiners with Joiners, Smiths on Smiths fo war, 
 Bakers at Bakers drive 5, Wool-Combers fpight 
 Their Fellows ; Coopers one another fight ; 
 That equal Perils from the mingled Rage 
 Abide the Objects of their Patronage V . .. 
 Refolve with one Accord to interpofe, 
 And by an honefl Wilt difhonefl Difcord clofe : 
 That falutary Wile then in the Brain 
 Of fome fage FATHER, ftudious of the Main, 
 Suggefted might, through Vehicle of White ^ 
 (Invention's Whet!) 01 Coffee Steam alight. 
 Hence INDIGO, to counfel quick, nor flow 
 Of Refolution, nor in Action low, 
 Stout as TYDIDES, yet as NESTOR wife, 
 Might, thus infpir'd, in clofe Cabal arife, 
 And, confident of Trick-availing Skill, 
 His Fluency of Tongue thus fweetly trill : 
 
 " Copartners in the Caufe, whofe Blazonry 
 <c The Heav'ns affedt s as it adorns the Sky: 
 
 Though
 
 / 
 Battle of the Voice. 
 
 " Though would Occafion bid aflert the Fray, 
 " And with Mob Prowrfs vindicate the Day, 
 " Yet paft Events warn to beware the Courfe 
 " Of Butcher Fury and of Porter Force. 
 " The Foe of late (Befhrew the Change !) 
 havequell'd [pell'd; 
 
 " Our hardeft Fifts, and Bang with Bruife re- 
 
 And where a fmuggled Odds, by dark 
 
 Surprife, [ Prize> 
 
 e< With Clubs in Ambum, would redeem the 
 
 " Law, hamp'ring Law, which oft' to 
 
 (d) SOUTHGATE leads, [Heads. 
 
 " Provok'd fell vengeful on our Champions 
 
 <e Remains it, then, that Policy take place, 
 
 c< Such as may compenfate our laft Difgrace. 
 
 " For who forgets that yet o'er-clouding Shame 
 
 " Of our fo baulk'd, though well-laid, Stra- 
 
 ta g em > [Curtain drawn 
 " Which we defign'd . ^But be a 
 
 " On that Affair, a Night unknowing Dawn !) 
 
 " But 
 
 (d) Soutbgate.'] The Prifon, or Goal, in its inferiour 
 Den, for Felons of all Degrees, and in its upper Rooms for 
 Debtors.
 
 160 < fbe MOB I AD; or, 
 
 " But did, opprobr'ous to our thwarted Aim, 
 <f The happier (e) RECTUS to the Chair reclaim, 
 
 " The Seat wherein HE, twice fix Moons 
 
 before, 
 " Our Envy, and the Publick's Bleffings, bore. 
 
 <c HADD Y, you know, would his Ambition 
 
 treat 
 " In rilling as if jufl ! our Chieftan Seat. 
 
 " Be 't ours with Guile to difappoint a View 
 " That with the Yellow would o'ertop the Blue. 
 " Strength were at beft precarious ; nor we may 
 " Now hope Adjournment to atchieve Delay. 
 
 " 'Tis gone from JACINTH to prorogue the 
 
 Poll, 
 c Then in the Dark for Mercenaries prowl. 
 
 " And RECTUS, who as yet the Rudder guides, 
 
 " Though mild and courteous, ftiff in Jujlice 
 
 prides : 
 
 With 
 
 (C 
 
 (e) Refius,] Mr. SYMONDS, a Gentleman of the wor- 
 thieft Charader, who was at this Time Mayor j having 
 been ele&ed the preceding Year (when he had been fct up 
 only as a Stalkinghorfe, to facilitate the Choice of another, 
 though he had honourably difcharg'd the Office but one 
 Year before.
 
 Battle of the Voice. 161 
 
 " With Heart entire, and refolute in Right, 
 " No Wheadles lure him, no Pretences bite. 
 
 " As foon the PRUSSIAN, charm'd with FLEU- 
 
 RY'S Aim, r _ T . 
 
 [Claim, 
 
 " To BERGUES and JULIERS fhall renounce his 
 
 " And, drain'd of fierce Difguft, the PORTE 
 
 allow 
 " The envy'd Russ to keep her OCZAKOW : 
 
 " As foon the DUTCH give felfifh Treaties o'er, 
 " And SPAIN our Shipping uncompell'd re- 
 
 rr ,. . 
 [Right, 
 
 <c FRANCE toil officious in dup'd AUSTRIA'S 
 " And SWEDEN aid, to get but Thank-ye by't. 
 " PULT'NY as foon fhall on Sir ROBRET fawn,! 
 
 " And PATRICK'S Dean turn Sneak for Sleeves \ 
 
 of Lawn, 
 " As warplefs RECTUS will afide be drawn, j 
 
 No : other Management, prefage I, would 
 
 " Be his than that when manag'd JACINTH 
 
 rul'd. 
 " Wife Caution guide, then -, nor on windy Cry, 
 
 * e Nor fpecious Colour, ever more rely. 
 
 " 'Tis
 
 162 Ibe M OBI AD; or, 
 
 ( 
 
 <c 'Tis in our Hands, though Scruples might 
 forbid, 
 
 " Our Caufe from Hazard of Relapfe to rid 
 
 " Were once more HADDY to fair Chance 
 preferr'd, 
 
 " HADDY, the Idol of the hated Herd ! 
 
 <c My Heart forebodes, our Fraud and Fore: 
 
 were vain j r 
 
 [again. 
 
 te Theirs were the Glory , ours the Shame 
 ft But H E afide, - we may to Ufe apply 
 
 " Old (f) EXPLETIVE, * a Tool, for Years 
 iet by -, 
 
 " But well referv'd for fuch convenient Hour, 
 
 " To chcar our J5//^, and daunt the Tellow 
 PowV. 
 
 " My Sentence is propos'd. Advife, if ye 
 " Have apter Counfel, or with mine' agree." 
 
 Thus clofing might he fit. And MAZARINE, 
 Slow rifing, might next in Oration fhine, 
 
 More 
 
 (/) Expletive,] Mr. CULME, who had been long thrown 
 aTide, and was at this critical Scafon pitch'd on but to ferve 
 an End.
 
 Battle of the Voice. 163 
 
 More fage in Youth than if ULYSSES* Pate 
 On green TELEMACHUS'S Shoulders fate, 
 
 And thus addrefs'd : " Ye, Confcript Fathers, 
 
 right 
 
 " On Me for fafe Direction fix your Sight, 
 " For a Dictator fram'd. And well ye know 
 " What Benefits to my Advice ye owe, 
 
 " Whofe Chin, fcarce confcious of the Razor's 
 Edge, 
 
 " Yea ere its woolly Down began to fledge, 
 
 " For Years have, to your Wifdom's Praife, 
 
 averr'd 
 " You mete not Sapience by Length of Beard. 
 
 " How large could I in pompous Strains declare 
 " The Greatnefs of my future Reigning Year. 
 " But Time {hall fpeakj And, in laconic Style, 
 " Be pleas' d to know :-- 1 recommend the Wile : 
 " Be EXPLETIVE your prefent Shift, fince vain 
 " This Seafon were my Enterprife to reign : 
 
 " Whereas Twelve Months improv'd aright 
 
 may clear 
 ? An Ope for fure Acceffion to the Chair. " 
 
 X Thus
 
 164 *fl>e MOBIAD-, or, 
 
 Thus might the venerable Daniel end, 
 And none reply, but, backing, to commend : 
 With Glee the Junto might adopt the Scheme, 
 And voted Thanks refound his Sehfe fupreme : 
 Reduc'd to Practice the Defign take place, 
 And fit in Chamber with demure Grimace. 
 
 Such, fay we, might, if not aware that Skill 
 And Strength would fail a too advent'rous Will, 
 Nor (g) Audience ft unhop'd, we here afTay. 1 
 But left we blunder in wild Paths aftray, 
 We'll frill purfue the beft-known fafer Way. j 
 
 ^f The Sun now, fhaping duly South hisTour, 
 Marks on true Dials Low Life's (/6)Dining-Hour. 
 
 The 
 
 (g) Audience fit .~\ According to MILTON'S very necefla- 
 ry Petition to URANIA, <c Fit Audience find^ though few," 
 
 (h) Loiv Life's Dining."} Twelve o'Clock, when the Vul- 
 gar or fimple Sort, fuch of them as have any Thing to eat, 
 particularly Journeymen Helliers, Maibns, Joiners, Smiths, 
 Taylors, &c. precifely go to Dinner : Of fome of whom it 
 has been obferv'd, or pretended to have been obferv'd, that 
 at the very firft Stroke of the Clock, they have left Strokes 
 of their own unfinifh'd. $$ To prevent cavilling Criticks, 
 we muft here note, that tho' the Frttmen are by us allow'd 
 
 to
 
 'Battle of the Voice. 165. 
 
 The Thralls in SOUTHGATE have, with tir'd 
 Ado, 
 
 Fifh'd up almoft Three-half-pence with the 
 
 Shoe. 
 
 At WESTGATE Clowns lean awkward on their 
 
 .'" 
 
 Rods, r 
 
 [nods ; 
 
 And, gaping, wait 'till (/') MATTHEW MILLAR 
 Nor little ftrange at the myfterious Cafe, 
 
 A Millar fhould thus wear a Colliers Face, 
 i 
 
 Clocks blefs'd ! found Cupboard : Good-wives 
 
 Belows ply : 
 
 Boys fpring from School, fharp-fet, with Exftacy. 
 Poft-Office Window, flap ! claps to : In vain 
 Poflers with Letters to fave Twopence ftrain : 
 X 2 For 
 
 to be, all or moft, in and about the Guildhall on the Bufi- 
 nefs of the Day, yet Numbers of Journeymen, &c. may 
 be, and indeed are, Strangers, and fuch as are not Free. 
 Befides, Noon indifferently, at any Time, is here intended 
 to be thus defcribed. 
 
 (i) Matthew the Millar.] One of the Images at the 
 Tower of St. Mary Steps, which, nodding its Head by 
 Clockwork, feems to aflift in the Chimes, which play at 4, 
 8, and 12. They call him the Millar, tho' by his black 
 Compie&ion \butfmce the writing this Poem new p:.inted\~ 
 he fhould feem to have been rather a Collier than a Millar.
 
 166 tte MOBJAD-, or, 
 
 For (k) ST ANN AWAY, or Yokefellow in lieu, 
 More forward, fmiles the running Gain to view. 
 Now Trowels back unus'd the Mortar throw, 
 Half-driv'n remains the Nail with Half a Blow, 
 Smiths drop the mounted Sledge, and Crofs'd- 
 
 Le s lea P sw ^ w ~- wr , [yard ftep. 
 From Shopboard, and to Cooks or (/) Church- 
 
 The Conclave opes: Th' Affairs of Secret end ; 
 
 Furr'd Gowns to grace the Nether Bench 
 defcend : 
 
 But on the Stairs, until fome narrow Way 
 Opes for Accefs, prolong uneafy Stay. 
 As Armies, difciplin'd to Action, nerve 
 Their harras'd Ranks with Bodies of Referve, 
 Impetuous in, at once, Outftanders break, 
 With Voice unbroke, obftrep'rous, to the Freak. 
 
 To 
 
 (k ) Stowaway.] Precifely at Twelve is {hut the Poft- 
 OfficeWooden Cafement ; outfide waits Mr.Sr ANNAWAY, 
 Port to Honiton, or his Wife, to receive Letters (for each 
 of which he has 2d.) to be put into the Bag at Honiton. 
 [NOTE, We /peak of the Time when the Poem was written.'] 
 
 (/) Churchyard, &c.] Here, they tell us, (I fuppofe jocu- 
 larly) Taylors fpend their Noon Hour, when they have n,Q 
 Dinner fave Air.
 
 Battle of the Voice. 167 
 
 To drill a Pafs now feems Sampfonian Toil, 
 Though Staffs of high Commiffion plowing 
 
 moil, 
 
 Thofe magic Staff's which hiden Treafure find, 
 And evil Spirits from Night- walking bind ; 
 The Staffs which dare thump ope robufteft 
 
 Door; 
 
 Staffs which wrong-fided Drunkards fink before. 
 
 Work now Heads, Elbows, Knees, Heels, 
 
 Breafts, and Backs, 
 
 Till by detorting Jerks the Cieling cracks ! 
 .And, as ftretch'd Boots on forcive (m) 'Trees 
 
 extend 
 
 Dimenfion, Walls extruded feem to bend. 
 The graceful Portrait of the () Princely Dame, 
 ISCA'S fair Native, fhudders in the Frame. 
 
 MONK 
 
 (m) Trees."] Viz. Bootmakers Trees, fo called. 
 
 (n) Princely Dame.] In the Guildhall are at full Length 
 the Portraits of his prefent Majefty K. GEORGE II. of 
 the Princefs HFNRIETTA MARIA, Daughter of K. 
 CHARLES I. (he being a Native of the City; and of 
 Gen. MONK, Earl of 4lbemarle y a Devon/hire Man born.
 
 i68 The MO El AD-, or, 
 
 MONK eke in Picture fhakes, as if the Noje 
 Of (o) NOLL withVengance to his Seeming rofe. 
 Ev'n (p) CAESAR, whofe heroic Soul no Awe 
 E'er felt when He grim Danger inftant law, 
 C/ESAR, who on infanguin'd (q) BELGIA'S Plain, 
 And his own raging and (r) rebellious Main, 
 
 Shew'd CHURCHILL'S Self more how quick 
 
 Fate to brave, 
 And WAGER to fuftain the (s) wrackful Wave; 
 
 CAESAR, who dares, by Juftice led, defy 
 
 Leagued FRANCE and SPAIN, though flum- I 
 
 bers neuter by 
 The lull'd, feduc'd, ingrateful, (t) old Ally ; J 
 
 BRITANNIA'S CAESAR, with majeftic Fear, 
 In painted Image, feems the Shock to hear. 
 
 The 
 < 
 
 (o) NOLL.] OLIVER CROMWELL, wont to be call'd 
 OLD NOLL, and his Nofe efteem'd notable. 
 
 (p) Cafar.] The Pidure of K. GEORGE II. juft above 
 already mentioned. 
 
 (q) Viz. When he was Prince of Hanover, and fought 
 in the Army commanded by the Duke of Marlborough^ fefc. 
 
 (r) His Britannick Majefty being aflerted Sovereign of 
 the Britijh Seas. 
 
 (s) Alluding to the dangerous Paffage from Htlland, in 
 which his Majefty with Admiral WAGER had like to have 
 been caft away. (t) The Dutch.
 
 Battle of the Voice. 169 
 
 The (ti) Lion, trembling as if heard below 
 
 At once the (x) GLOBE'S collected (y) Cocks to ^ 
 
 crow) 
 Threats to defert his Poft, and, with his Mate 
 
 Qijingk Horn, refign the Shield to Fate. 
 Bodies, on either Side, contiguous drove, 
 Incorporate ev'n to the Letter prove, 
 That from aloft Imagination dreads 
 Two Human Hydras with T wo Thoufand Heads. 
 Ten cafhlefs Debtors in that dreary Cave 
 Tdepdfaz (^) SHOE more free a Breathing have, 
 
 SCRUPLE 
 
 (u) Lion, &c.] The Lion, Supporter of the King's- 
 Arms fix'd over the Mayor's Seat. 
 
 (x) Globe.] The GLOBE Tavern, where Cock-fighting 
 is often held. [i. e. was often held at or about the Time of 
 Writing thii Pi em.] 
 
 (y) Cocks.'] According to antiently receiv'd Notion, (but 
 a Vulgar and exploded Error) living Lions ufed to tremble 
 on hearing a Cock crow; as, on the other Hand, Bulk 
 would flied their Urine, for very Dread, on hearing a Lion's 
 Roar ; how truly let others fay. 
 
 (z) The Shoe.'] So iscall'd a little clofe Room in Souihgatt 
 Prifon, where fuch poor infolveht Debtors as can't pay for 
 Lodgings, are [i. e. have been] crowded, or crufh'd in toge- 
 ther. It feems to have received its Denomination from the 
 Privilege they, in Turn, have of begging Charity of Paflers 
 by, they by a Cord letting down an Old Shoe to receive the 
 fame.
 
 170 ?be MOBIAD-, or, 
 
 (a) SCRUPLE the juft, who Raifin bites in twain, 
 That Scales do upright Juftice to a Grain, 
 Ne'er bought at WEYHILL, nor retail'd in Shop, 
 More flat, compact, in turgid Sack, the Hop ; 
 Nor Smoke-cur'd Herrings 'he imbarrel'd chofe 
 For like Compreflion of their fquatted Roes. 
 Bellies protuberant and Shoulders crump 
 Expedt to lofe their Prominence and Hump. 
 Heart, Lights, and Liver, fore Conftriction 
 
 moan ; r . 
 
 [ wels groan. 
 
 Punch'd Bofoms murmur, and fquelfh'd Bo- 
 
 Some Galligajkins to the helplefs Nofe 
 
 The mimick'd (b) Gulon's bruis'd Relief difclofe. 
 
 Damnonian 
 
 (b} Scruple the Juft.] A good old Juftice, renown'd for 
 Stri&nefs, and upright holding his Shop Scales, &c. &c. 
 
 (c) Gukn.] This being a moft voracious Beaft, when he 
 has a Carcafs larger than would ferve for one Meal, he ne- 
 ver ftirs from the Place till he has difpatch'd the whole, un- 
 lefs that, when he is full cramm'd, and can hold no more, 
 he goes to find two Trees very clofe together, through the 
 Interval whereof he drags and fqueezes his Body ; and fo he 
 gets rid of what he before devour'd, in order immediately to 
 fall to again.
 
 Battle of the Voice. 171 
 
 Danmonian Swains their grinded Apple prefs 
 To force Pomaceous Wine with Effort lefs 
 Than which the Stronger of the Wedgd aflay 
 For their PATRICIANS a progreffive Way ; 
 Yet all the Void the gen'ral Squeeze may boafl 
 Proves but an Alley's Six-Inch Wedth at moft ; 
 
 Whofe (c) tott'ring Sides, fway'd by th* elaftic 
 Load, 
 
 Next Moment clofe, and choak the petty Road; 
 
 Thro* which as, fideling, rubb'd, the Robes 
 
 recur, 
 To grating Buttons they tranflate the Fur. 
 
 The CONSCRIPT SIRES their arduous Tug 
 
 compleat, 
 
 And puffing gain their fafe and reftful Seat ; 
 There to dilate anew the ftreighten'd Bread, 
 And meditate a compenfating Feaft; 
 
 Y Where 
 
 (f) Tottering Sides.] Meaning the Conftables and ftrong 
 Men who compofe the Sides of the little Lane thus fo 
 difficultly made j and fcarcely fave them/elves from being 
 over-powered.
 
 ?he MO El AD-, or, 
 
 Where, whilft go (d) meliorated Bumpers round, 
 
 The Hours fhall with augmenting Glee be 
 crown'd, 
 
 Till (e) Sir John Adec, late, by Minftrel's 
 
 Tongue, rr 
 
 [fung. 
 
 And (f) Zwopping- Mallard by their own, be 
 Severe (g) APOLLO on a Tide may laugh, 
 And JOVE on Galas crank with Codlings quaff. 
 
 So (durft we, as your topping Poets dare, 
 A low-fife Brute with lofty Man compare) 
 
 A 
 
 (d) Meliorated.] By this Word hangs a Tale of a face- 
 tious Alderman deceas'd, who order'd an Attendant to pour 
 out half a Glafs of Cyder, but withal bad him meliorate it, 
 pointing to a Decanter of Port Wine : And having taken it 
 ofrf, turns to a Brother Alderman, yet^ exifting, [But 
 died long fmce ; which I now write in Tear 1770.] in State 
 by him fmoaking his Pipe, faying, Do you know what me- 
 liorating a Thing ;V, Mr. Alderman ? " Know what 'tis ? 
 replies the Sage, nodding his- wife Head, " Yes, yes, I 
 know what 'tis : *Tis Port and Cyder. 
 
 (e) Sir John Adee ] See before pa. Note ( ). 
 
 (f) Zwopping Mallard.] Another favourite old Chamber 
 Song, firil introduced and ufually fung by the grave Recor- 
 der himfelf. 
 
 (g) Apollo, &c.] Alluding to Semel in anno ridet
 
 Battle of the Voice. 173 
 
 (h) A tabby Tygrefs of familiar Race 
 
 Wiredraws her Loins thro' fome ftrict Cranny's 
 Space, 
 
 In DreacT off ftript her furry Drefs to find, 
 And even Half her Intrails left behind : 
 But, after panting in enlarged Room, 
 Revives her Hope to meet a counter Doom j 
 Her fwelling Womb extends its flatten'd Frame, 
 Well-fcented Gates her eager Guft inflame : 
 Or, haply, fhe may with erected Ear 1 
 
 The Squeek of lufcious Game domeftic hear, > 
 
 1 
 Nor doubt e'er long a Feaft of Ven'fon Cheer, j 
 
 Augmented Outcries Strength of Whirlwinds 
 
 blow, r . 
 
 [throw. 
 
 Threat'ning the heaving Roofs' puff d Over- 
 Net when, on Birth-days, loyal Powder roars 
 In joyous Union through train'd Mufket-Bores 
 Of full Battalion, e'er a Burft fo loud 
 Was heard to fhatter an impending Cloud. 
 
 Y 2 The 
 
 (h) Tabby Tygrefs^ &c.] Meaning a Houlhold Cat,
 
 174 7& MOBIAD; or, 
 
 The Welkin fkrinks, and ftarting Air around 
 Fears aVulcanian Rupture of the Ground. 
 Command for Silence bids the Tempeft fwell ; 
 The Word repeated does the Thing repel ; 
 For Silence ! Silence ! with extended Pow'r, 
 From ev'ry Mouth refounding drive their Hour. 
 
 But Marshals, who (I) Stentorian Clamour 
 flrain 
 
 To quafli the Storm, at lail, a Paufe obtain : 
 
 Then " O o-o- Y-e-s ! longly drawl'd, as 
 
 Ufe decrees, 
 
 c - That Free Men (of high, low, or, no Degrees) 
 
 " To choofc a new Prime Magiftrate draw 
 nigh'r, 
 
 ** And Aliens, to avoid the Jail, retire." 
 The fage (k) PROPR^TOR, tho* exerted ftrong, 
 Yet fmooth his Accent, to the buzzing Throng, 
 
 On 
 
 (/') Stentorian Clamour."] STENTOR, in the Grecian 
 Army before Troy, is (at leaft poetically) recorded to have 
 equali'd Fifty ordinary-Men in Loudnefs of Voice. Vid. 
 HOM. II. lib. v. ver. 784. Or the mere Englijh Reader 
 fcnay fee POPE'S Tranfl. ver. 976, &c. or fee^Juv. Sat. xiii. 
 
 (k) Proprietor.] The Recorder, Mr. Serj. JJ-lf d.
 
 Battle of the Voice. 175 
 
 On Tiptoes of Expectance, All attent 
 
 Their Ears as THEBES e'er to (/) AMPHION lent/y 
 
 To fuck the Charms of dulcet Eloquence, 
 
 Back'd with deep Knowledge and illumin'd 
 
 Senfe, * 
 
 Yields thus his Oral Mufick : ^ ce Gen-de-men, 
 (Their Style To-day .To-morrow Scrubs agcri)-- 
 
 " Since has the MA^'R his Confulate gone 
 
 through; r , ,. 
 
 [due !) 
 
 " (For which, moil worthily, our Thanks are 
 " I muft inform you, (though already known)-* 
 " It's the fix'd Conftitution of our Town, 
 
 *< When 
 
 (/) drnphton."] The Fable of his miraculous Lyre, at his 
 playing on which the Stones which built the Walls of 
 THEBES, danced to the Places where they fhould be lay'd, 
 is reafonably fuppos'd to have had no other Bottom than that 
 when he invaded that Country, and carried Mufick, which 
 he had learn'd in LYDIA, then firft into GREECE witk 
 him, the Melody was fo admired for its Excellence and 
 Novelty, that he eafily engaged the People to carry on the 
 Building whilft he diverted them with his Harp. Pr it as 
 probably means, that whereas they were before naturally 
 rude and uncivilized, they were by his Eloquence induced to 
 inhabit within the fame, and live under Laws in Community 
 together.
 
 176 The MOB IAD-, or, 
 
 " When call'd on to fupply the Chair Supreme, 
 
 A**' Your GOVERNOURS have Right repos'd in 
 Them, 
 
 " To fix, as proper CANDIDATES, on Two-, 
 " Of whom the propereft remains to You :" 
 So, with a graceful Emphafis of Tone, 
 TWO nominates, for their Suffrages ONE. * 
 
 But fcarce the Cadence from his Lip can fly, 
 Ere Quarrel joins in one harmonious Cry, 
 Or but contends which Lungs furpaffing Might 
 Could have attefted in a lengthen'd Fight. 
 Difcord aton'd now in ftrange Union ftrives, 
 And Peace in unaccuftom'd Concord thrives. 
 
 With CULME ! CULME ! CULME ! the alter'd 
 
 Hall abounds ; rr 
 
 [tounds. 
 
 CULME ! unoppos'd from valid Throats re- 
 Windows and Walls feem CULME to fhout : 
 
 On high r , 
 
 [reply. 
 
 Accordant Echoes CULME ! CULME ! CULME ! 
 
 No
 
 Battle of the Voice. 177 
 
 No Deed, no Word, no Look, betrays a Fear j 
 
 f 
 No Foot recedes ; all Hands Refiftance dare : l ^x 
 
 All to the Palm difputelefs Title bring, ] 
 
 And, without Conqueft, all Ovation ring. 
 
 Now lovely founds the confentaneousjar; 
 Now beautifully fmiles, appeas'd, the War ; 
 Now Party Battle proves a focial Play ; 
 Now Wraths turn Friendfhip, bent the felf-fame 
 
 Way. 
 So Winds whofe Force, by Winds oppos'd, 
 
 might wage 
 
 A Storm, and lafh the Main to furly Rage j 
 But one Point blowing, though with ftronger 
 
 Gales, 
 Delight the belly'd and more fpeeded Sails. 
 
 Amazing Turn ! ~ Bells wak'd in Tranfport 
 
 feel 
 
 Strange early Pulls exhort each flinging Wheel, 
 
 Whofe
 
 178 The MOB IAD, 
 
 Whofe jocund Rounds the baffled Variance 
 
 \). r 
 
 j> 
 
 ( As thus the jokeful Confort feems to run : 
 Vi&orious All ! yet none a Foe fubdues ! 
 The Yellows loft not, though have won the 
 Blues ! 
 
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