HENRY THOMAS BUCKLE, - Horntip

For the trutn of this narration, I appeal to the
judges appointed by the Senate, Thomas Storningius
and Adrian Mollerus, my friends, who, as you know,
are flill living. Befides, it is not many years fince
that a perfon of a fmall poll in a noted town in
Holland, very much addiaed to venery, was catched
in the very aCt with a woman, whom he could never
effe6tually enjoy without being ftimulated by flogging.
The poor man, upon an information to the magiftrates,
paid feverely for his luft by the lofs of his office.*
Heec fuit in toto notijima fabvla vago.
O'er the whole town the noted ftory roll'd,
By merry cits at every meeting told.
Now, fince, I believe, you neither would, nor can
* Perhaps the oddeft whim among whipping anecdotes is
that of a certain nobleman, who flourifhed in the reign of George
II. This fingular charaaer rented a houfe in St. James's-
-place, and made an elderly good-looking woman houfekeeper.
It was his woman's bufinefs one day of each week to provide
every article for fcrubbing out a room, and to engage two
pretty women to meet him there on the day—one to reprefent a
houfekeeper, and the other a chamber-maid. While he was
fcrubbing the room, he fancied himtelf a Pe-tri/lt ;rirl, and be
did his work lo very bad, that one or the other ot the women,
or both, whipped him in the tame unmerciful manner thole
poor girls are whipped by cruel miftrel.,s.
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