 Yew, taken pure and undefiled from its native Forest. There's a Complexion, there's a Polish! it is a Looking Glass, in which, the favourite
Sultana,
or Daughter of the
Grand Seignior,
might behold every Charm reflected with Advantage. Note the Variety of its Tints, the Luxuriance of its Veinings. How prodigal Nature has been, in expending on this favourite Piece of Vegetation, such a Number of Excellencies, such a Profusion of Beauties! Neither has Art fallen short of the Graces and Perfections of Nature herein. Mark the Taste, the Manner, the Mouldings; how jointed and framed together, as one organized Body. The Operator no Doubt took a Pleasure, by his Workmanship, to rival the Beauties of the Subject on which he wrought. --I set it up at five Guineas --What is five Guineas, my Friends? --Not the Half of what ye will bid at the second Word --and, what is five times five Guineas, to the intrinsic Value? --The Curious, indeed, have nothing so rare in their Cabinets --Neither ever had Prince
Arthur,
or any of the Knights of the famous Round-Table, the Honour of sitting round such a Table as this. Gentlemen --Ladies --Who bids? --You think the Merits above Price, and that may discourage you --bid something --bid any Thing --It is the first Article of Sale --I will make a kind of Present of it --I set it up at five Shillings --I set it up at five Pence --What the Devil is come over ye Neighbours; has Money and common Sense quitted the World together?
Ay, ay, thought all present, the Devil, the Devil! that is the Case indeed. And thus, our Orator might have been preaching, like Saint
Anthony
to the Fishes, till the Day of Doom; before any of his dumb Auditors would have returned a Word of Answer.
The Fact is that, as the Devil was a Personage, however respectable, with whom the well-meaning Inhabitants of this ancient Village did not chuse to have any Manner of Dealings; neither desired to go Snacks, in Matters of Property, with Beings whom they held much wiser than themselves, and of whose Honesty they had but a very slender Opinion; these Agents of Mr.
Snarle
were obliged to return, just as rich as they came, their Reckoning deducted; and Mr.
Snarle
soon found himself under the Necessity of disposing of those, his questionable
