Copy 1, Volume 5

The doctor &c / [Robert Southey].

  • Robert Southey
Date:
1834-1847
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Licence: Public Domain Mark

Credit: The doctor &c / [Robert Southey]. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    enumerated in his Title-Page among the varie¬ ties of such Fancy Birds, Powters, Carriers, Horsemen,Dragoons, Croppers, Powting Horse¬ men, Uplopers, Fantails, Chinese Pigeons, Lace- Pigeons, Tumblers, Punts, Spots, Laughers, Trumpeters, Jacobines, Capuchines, Nuns, Shakers, Helmets, Ruffs, Finnikins, Turners, Barbs, Mahomets, Turbits, Owls, and Smiters, concluding the imperfect enumeration with an &c. The Foul Fiends also have odd names. Witness the list which John Gee collected after the veracious Romish Priests of his time : Lusty Dick, Killico, Hob, Corner-Cap, Puffe, Purre, Frateretto, Fliberdigibbet, Haberdicut, Cocabelto, Maho, (this Maho, who was a gen¬ tleman as Shakespeare tells us, maintained his ground against a Priest for seven hours) Kelli- cocam, Wilkin, Smolkin, Lusty Jolly Jenkin, (this must have been a Welsh Devil and of a noble race) Porto Richo, (peradventure a Creole Devil,) Pudding of Thame—(fie on such pudding !) Pour Dieu (Pour Diable !) Bonjour, Motubizanto, Nur, Bernon, Delicate.