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BIBLIOGRAPHICAL NOTE

_The Merry-Thought: or, The Glass-Window and Bog-House Miscellany_
is reproduced from a copy of the third edition in the William
Andrews Clark Memorial Library. A typical type page (p. 20) measures
173 x 87 mm.

[Illustration:
{tavern surmounted by cherub carrying banner reading "ha! ha! ha!"}]

The

MERRY-THOUGHT:

or, the

Glass-Window and Bog-House

MISCELLANY.

Taken from

The Original Manuscripts written in _Diamond_
by Persons of the first Rank and Figure in _Great
Britain_; relating to Love, Matrimony, Drunkenness,
Sobriety, Ranting, Scandal, Politicks, Gaming,
and many other Subjects, _Serious_ and _Comical_.

Faithfully Transcribed from the Drinking-Glasses and
Windows in the several noted _Taverns_, _Inns_, and
other _Publick Places_ in this Nation. Amongst which
are intermixed the Lucubrations of the polite Part
of the World, written upon Walls in Bog-houses, _&c._

_Published by_ HURLO THRUMBO.

_Gameyorum, Wildum, Gorum,
Gameyorum a Gamy,
Flumarum a Flumarum,
A Rigdum Bollarum
A Rigdum, for a little Gamey._

Bethleham-Wall, Moor-Fields.

The Third Edition; with very Large Additions and Alterations.

_LONDON:_

Printed for J. ROBERTS in _Warwick-Lane_; and Sold by
the Booksellers in Town and Country. [Price 6 _d._]

_N. B._ Some Pieces having been inadvertently inserted in the Second
Part of this Miscellany, whoever it is that shall hereafter send any
Thing which reflects on the Character, &c. of any Person, whether it
be a Nobleman, or a Link-Boy, shall receive no Favour from our Hands.

The

DEDICATION

To The

Honourable and Worthy Authors
of the following Curious Pieces.

Gentlemen and Ladies,

_Would it not be great Pity, that the profound Learning and Wit of so
many illustrious Personages, who have favoured the Publick with their
Lucubrations in Diamond Characters upon _Drinking-Glasses_, on
_Windows_, on _Walls_, and in _Bog-houses_, should be left to the World?
Consider only, Gentlemen and Ladies, how many Accidents might rob us of
these sparkling Pieces, if the industrious Care of the Collector had not
taken this Way of preserving them, and handing them to Posterity. In the
first Place,