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.

_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.

PART IV.

_LONDON_:

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

_N. B._ There being a great Number of these Pieces of Wit and Humour at
most Places of publick Resort in this Kingdom, it is hoped that all, who
are pleased with, or willing to promote this Design, will be so good as
to collect and send them to the Publisher hereof. The Editor does not
care how merry they are, provided they are not obscene.

THE

MERRY-THOUGHT.

PART IV.

To the EDITOR of the Glass-Window, _&c._ Miscellany.

_Mr._ BOG,

Where Wit and Learning (as at present in this our Isle) so much abound,
great Marvel it is to me, That so worthy a Compiler of other Men's
Labours as yourself, should be put to the little mean Shifts of copying
from such _Cacascriptores_, who have from _Hudibras_, _Tom Brown_, and
others of the like Rank, their little Bits and Scraps, basely purloined,
whereby you run a Risque of being deem'd yourself a Plagiary: Nor is it
less unbecoming the Dignity and Fidelity of your Undertaking, to supply
the Want of Application and Diligence, by filling up your lifeless Pages
with Musical Punctations, as vile and unrelishing as ever echo'd from
your own natural Bagpipe. Therefore, that you may the better be enabled
these Indecencies equally to avoid, I send you the following
_Collectanea Nasutula_: If you honour them, I shall honour your next
Performance; if not, _Non cuicunque datum est habere nasum_.

_From a Boghouse near _Lincoln's-Inn-Fields_._

_The_ WISH.

Oh! may our Senate, learn'd and great,
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