re to the strength;
Wisdom and Wit are little seen,
But Folly at full length."

Such is the attachment of man to the recollections of any thing
associated with pleasure, that it is questionable if the memory of old
Joe Miller is not held in higher estimation by the moderns than that of
Father Luther, the reformer; and while the numerous amusing anecdotes
in circulation tend to keep alive the fame of Nash, it is not surprising
that the merry pay court to his statue, being in his own dominions,
before they bow at the classic shrine of Pope, or bend in awful
admiration beneath the bust of the greatest of philosophers.

"'Twas said of old, deny it now who can,
The only laughing animal is man."

And we are about to present the reader with a right merry scene, one,
too, if he has any fun in his composition, or loves a good joke, must
warm the cockles ~320~~of his heart. Who would ever have thought, in
these moralizing times, when the puritans are raising conventicles in
every town and village, and the cant of vice societies has spread itself
over the land, that in one of our most celebrated places of fashionable
resort, there should be found baths where the young and the old, the
beauteous female and the gay spark, are all indiscriminately permitted
to enjoy the luxurious pleasure together. That such is the case in
Bath no one who has recently participated in the pleasures of immersion
will dispute, and in order to perpetuate that gratification, Bob
Transit has here faithfully delineated the scene which occurred upon our
entering the King's Bath, through the opening from the Queen's, where,
to our great amusement and delight, we found ourselves surrounded by
many a sportive nymph, whose beauteous form was partially hidden by
the loose flannel gown, it is true; but now and then the action of the
water, produced by the continued movements of a number of persons all
bathing at the same time, discovered charms, the which to have caught
a glimpse of in any other situation might have proved of dangerous
consequences to the fair possessors. The baths, it must be admitted, are
delightful, both from their great extent and their peculiar properties,
as, on entering from the Queen's Bath you may enjoy the water at from 90
to 96 degrees, or requiring more heat have only to walk forward, through
the archway, to obtain a temperature of 116. The first appearance of old
Blackstrap's visage floating