ttles and a half of lightning.

One shower of snow in the whitest French paper.

Two showers of a browner sort.

A sea, consisting of a dozen large waves; the tenth bigger than
ordinary, and a little damaged.

A dozen and a half of clouds, trimmed with black, and well
conditioned.

A rainbow a little faded.

A set of clouds after the French mode, streaked with lightning, and
furbelowed.

A new-moon, something decayed.

A pint of the finest Spanish wash, being all that is left of two
hogsheads sent over last winter.

A coach very finely gilt, and little used, with a pair of dragons,
to be sold cheap.

A setting sun, a pennyworth.[410]

An imperial mantle, made for Cyrus the Great, and worn by Julius
Caesar, Bajazet, King Harry the Eighth, and Signior Valentin.[411]

A basket-hilt sword, very convenient to carry milk in.

Roxana's night-gown.

Othello's handkerchief.

The imperial robes of Xerxes, never worn but once.

A wild-boar, killed by Mrs. Tofts[412] and Dioclesian.

A serpent to sting Cleopatra.

A mustard-bowl to make thunder with.

Another of a bigger sort, by Mr. D----is's directions, little
used.[413]

Six elbow-chairs, very expert in country-dances, with six
flower-pots for their partners.

The whiskers of a Turkish bassa.

The complexion of a murderer in a band-box; consisting of a large
piece of burnt cork, and a coal-black peruke.

A suit of clothes for a ghost, viz., a bloody shirt, a doublet
curiously pinked, and a coat with three great eyelet-holes upon the
breast.

A bale of red Spanish wool.

Modern plots, commonly known by the name of trapdoors, ladders of
ropes, vizard-masks, and tables with broad carpets over them.

Three oak cudgels, with one of crab-tree; all bought for the use of
Mr. Pinkethman.

Materials for dancing; as masks, castanets, and a ladder of ten
rounds.

Aurengezebe's scimitar, made by Will Brown in Piccadilly.

A plume of feathers, never used but by Oedipus and the Earl of
Essex.

There are also swords, halberts, sheep-hooks, cardinals' hats, turbans,
drums, gallipots, a gibbet, a cradle, a rack, a cart-wheel, an altar, a
helmet, a back-piece, a breast-plate, a bell, a tub, and a jointed
baby.[414]

These are the hard shifts we intelligencers are forced to; therefor