these great Wits, have such short
Memories, that they spell it both Ways in one and the
same Page.

The Master-Key to this Mystery, is the Explanation of
its Terms; for Example, by _Dumpling_ is meant a
Place, or any other Reward or Encouragement.
A _Pudding_ signifies a P----t, and sometimes a
C----tee. A _Dumpling Eater_, is a Dependant on the
Court, or, in a Word, any one who will rather pocket
an Affront than be angry at a Tip in Time. A _Cook_ is
a Minister of State. The _Epicurean_ and _Peripatetic_
Sects, are the two Parties of _Whigg_ and _Tory_, who
both are greedy enough of Dumpling.

The Author cannot forbear his old Sneer upon
Foreigners, but says, in his 1st Page, "That finding
it a Land of Plenty, they wisely resolved never to go
home again," and in his 2d, "Nay, so zealous are they
in the Cause of _Bacchus_, that one of the Chief among
them, made a Vow never to say his Prayers till he has
a Tavern of his own in every Street in _London_, and
in every Market-Town in _England_:" If he does not
mean Sir J---- T---- I know not who he means.

By the Invention of _Eggs_, Page 4. is meant
Perquisites. "He cannot conclude a Paragraph in his
5th _Page_, without owning he received that important
Part of the History of Pudding, from old Mr.
_Lawrence_ of _Wilsden Green_, the greatest Antiquary
of the present Age."

This old _Lawrence_ is a great Favourite of the D--s;
he is a facetious farmer, of above eighty Years of
Age, now living at _Wilsden Green_, near _Kilburn_ in
_Middlesex_, the most rural Place I ever saw: exactly
like the Wilds of _Ireland_. It was here the
D--n often retired _incog._ to amuse himself with the
Simplicity of the Place and People; where he got
together all that Rigmayroll of Childrens talk, which
composes his _Namby Pamby_. Old _Lawrence_ told me,
the D--n has sate several Hours together to see the
Children play, with the greatest Pleasure in Life: The
rest he learned from the old Nurses thereabouts, of
which there are a great many, with whom he would go
and smoke a Pipe frequently, and cordially; not in
his Clergyman's Habit, but in a black Suit of Cloth
Clothes, and without a Rose in his Hat: Which made
them conclude him to be a Presbyterian Parson.

This Mention of old _Lawrence_, is in Ridicule to a
certain great Artist, who wrote a Treatise upon the
Word _Connoisseur_ (or a Knower) and confesses himself
to have been many Years at a loss for a Word to
express the Action