On the other side, when a traveller and his horse are in heart and plight10, when his purse is full and the day before him, he takes the road only where it is clean or convenient, entertains his company there as agreeably as he can, but upon the first occasion carries them along with him to every delightful11 scene in view, whether of art, of Nature, or of both; and if they chance to refuse out of stupidity or weariness, let them jog on by themselves, and be d — n’d. He’ll overtake them at the next town, at which arriving, he rides furiously through, the men, women, and children run out to gaze, a hundred noisy curs run barking after him, of which, if he honours the boldest with a lash7 of his whip, it is rather out of sport than revenge. But should some sourer mongrel dare too near an approach, he receives a salute12 on the chaps by an accidental stroke from the courser’s heels, nor is any ground lost by the blow, which sends him yelping13 and limping home.
I now proceed to sum up the singular adventures of my renowned14 Jack15, the state of whose dispositions16 and fortunes the careful reader does, no doubt, most exactly remember, as I last parted with them in the conclusion of a former section. Therefore, his next care must be from two of the foregoing to extract a scheme of notions that may best fit his understanding for a true relish18 of what is to ensue.
Jack had not only calculated the first revolution of his brain so prudently19 as to give rise to that epidemic21 sect17 of AEolists, but succeeding also into a new and strange variety of conceptions, the fruitfulness of his imagination led him into certain notions which, although in appearance very unaccountable, were not without their mysteries and their meanings, nor wanted followers22 to countenance23 and improve them. I shall therefore be extremely careful and exact in recounting such material passages of this nature as I have been able to collect either from undoubted tradition or indefatigable24 reading, and shall describe them as graphically25 as it is possible, and as far as notions of that height and latitude26 can be brought within the compass of a pen. Nor do I at all question but they will furnish plenty of noble matter for such whose converting imaginations dispose them to reduce all things into types, who can make shadows — no thanks to the sun — and then mould them into substances — no thanks to philosophy — whose peculiar27 talent lies in fixing tropes and allegories to the letter, and refining what is literal into figure and mystery.
Jack had provided a fair copy of his father’s will, engrossed28 in form upon a large skin of parchment, and resolving to act the part of a most dutiful son, he became the fondest creature of it imaginable. For although, as I have often told the reader, it consisted wholly in certain plain, easy directions about the management and wearing of their coats, with legacies29 and penalties in case of obedience30 or neglect, yet he began to entertain a fancy that the matter was deeper and darker, and therefore must needs have a great deal more of mystery at the bottom. “Gentlemen,” said he, “I will prove this very skin of parchment to be meat, drink, and cloth, to be the philosopher’s stone and the universal medicine.” In consequence of which raptures31 he resolved to make use of it in the most necessary as well as the most paltry32 occasions of life. He had a way of working it into any shape he pleased, so that it served him for a nightcap when he went to bed, and for an umbrella in rainy weather. He would lap a piece of it about a sore toe; or, when he had fits, burn two inches under his nose; or, if anything lay heavy on his stomach, scrape off and swallow as much of the powder as would lie on a silver penny — they were all infallible remedies. With analogy to these refinements33, his common talk and conversation ran wholly in the praise of his Will, and he circumscribed34 the utmost of his eloquence35 within that compass, not daring to let slip a syllable36 without authority from thence. Once at a strange house he was suddenly taken short upon an urgent juncture37, whereon it may not be allowed too particularly to dilate38, and being not able to call to mind, with that suddenness the occasion required, an authentic39 phrase for demanding the way to the back, he chose rather, as the more prudent20 course, to incur40 the penalty in such cases usually annexed41; neither was it possible for the united rhetoric42 of mankind to prevail with him to make himself clean again, because, having consulted the will upon this emergency, he met with a passage near the bottom (whether foisted43 in by the transcriber44 is not known) which seemed to forbid it 70.
He made it a part of his religion never to say grace to his meat, nor could all the world persuade him, as the common phrase is, to eat his victuals45 like a Christian46 71.
He bore a strange kind of appetite to snap-dragon and to the livid snuffs of a burning candle 72, which he would catch and swallow with an agility47 wonderful to conceive; and by this procedure maintained a perpetual flame in his belly48, which issuing in a glowing steam from both his eyes, as well as his nostrils49 and his mouth, made his head appear in a dark night like the skull50 of an ass1 wherein a roguish boy hath conveyed a farthing-candle, to the terror of his Majesty’s liege subjects. Therefore he made use of no other expedient51 to light himself home, but was wont52 to say that a wise man was his own lanthorn.
He would shut his eyes as he walked along the streets, and if he happened to bounce his head against a post or fall into the kennel53 (as he seldom missed either to do one or both), he would tell the gibing54 apprentices55 who looked on that he submitted with entire resignation, as to a trip or a blow of fate, with whom he found by long experience how vain it was either to wrestle56 or to cuff57, and whoever durst undertake to do either would be sure to come off with a swingeing fall or a bloody58 nose. “It was ordained,” said he 73, “some few days before the creation, that my nose and this very post should have a rencounter, and therefore Providence59 thought fit to send us both into the world in the same age, and to make us countrymen and fellow-citizens. Now, had my eyes been open, it is very likely the business might have been a great deal worse, for how many a confounded slip is daily got by man with all his foresight60 about him. Besides, the eyes of the understanding see best when those of the senses are out of the way, and therefore blind men are observed to tread their steps with much more caution, and conduct, and judgment61 than those who rely with too much confidence upon the virtue62 of the visual nerve, which every little accident shakes out of order, and a drop or a film can wholly disconcert; like a lanthorn among a pack of roaring bullies63 when they scour64 the streets, exposing its owner and itself to outward kicks and buffets65, which both might have escaped if the vanity of appearing would have suffered them to walk in the dark. But further, if we examine the conduct of these boasted lights, it will prove yet a great deal worse than their fortune. It is true I have broke my nose against this post, because Providence either forgot, or did not think it convenient, to twitch66 me by the elbow and give me notice to avoid it. But let not this encourage either the present age of posterity67 to trust their noses unto the keeping of their eyes, which may prove the fairest way of losing them for good and all. For, O ye eyes, ye blind guides, miserable68 guardians69 are ye of our frail70 noses; ye, I say, who fasten upon the first precipice71 in view, and then tow our wretched willing bodies after you to the very brink72 of destruction. But alas73! that brink is rotten, our feet slip, and we tumble down prone74 into a gulf75, without one hospitable76 shrub77 in the way to break the fall — a fall to which not any nose of mortal make is equal, except that of the giant Laurcalco 74, who was Lord of the Silver Bridge. Most properly, therefore, O eyes, and with great justice, may you be compared to those foolish lights which conduct men through dirt and darkness till they fall into a deep pit or a noisome78 bog79.”
This I have produced as a scantling of Jack’s great eloquence and the force of his reasoning upon such abstruse80 matters.
He was, besides, a person of great design and improvement in affairs of devotion, having introduced a new deity81, who has since met with a vast number of worshippers, by some called Babel, by others Chaos82, who had an ancient temple of Gothic structure upon Salisbury plain, famous for its shrine83 and celebration by pilgrims.
When he had some roguish trick to play, he would down with his knees, up with his eyes, and fall to prayers though in the midst of the kennel. Then it was that those who understood his pranks84 would be sure to get far enough out of his way; and whenever curiosity attracted strangers to laugh or to listen, he would of a sudden bespatter them with mud.
In winter he went always loose and unbuttoned, and clad as thin as possible to let in the ambient heat, and in summer lapped himself close and thick to keep it out 75.
In all revolutions of government, he would make his court for the office of hangman-general, and in the exercise of that dignity, wherein he was very dexterous85, would make use of no other vizard than a long prayer.
He had a tongue so musculous and subtile, that he could twist it up into his nose and deliver a strange kind of speech from thence. He was also the first in these kingdoms who began to improve the Spanish accomplishment86 of braying87; and having large ears perpetually exposed and erected88, he carried his art to such a perfection, that it was a point of great difficulty to distinguish either by the view or the sound between the original and the copy.
He was troubled with a disease the reverse to that called the stinging of the tarantula, and would run dog-mad at the noise of music, especially a pair of bagpipes89 76. But he would cure himself again by taking two or three turns in Westminster Hall, or Billingsgate, or in a boarding-school, or the Royal Exchange, or a state coffee-house.
He was a person that feared no colours, but mortally hated all, and upon that account bore a cruel aversion to painters, insomuch that in his paroxysms as he walked the streets, he would have his pockets loaded with stones to pelt90 at the signs 77.
Having from his manner of living frequent occasions to wash himself, he would often leap over head and ears into the water, though it were in the midst of the winter, but was always observed to come out again much dirtier, if possible, than he went in 78.
He was the first that ever found out the secret of contriving91 a soporiferous medicine to be conveyed in at the ears 79. It was a compound of sulphur and balm of Gilead, with a little pilgrim’s salve.
He wore a large plaister of artificial caustics92 on his stomach, with the fervour of which he could set himself a groaning93 like the famous board upon application of a red-hot iron.
He would stand in the turning of a street, and calling to those who passed by, would cry to one, “Worthy sir, do me the honour of a good slap in the chaps;” to another, “Honest friend, pray favour me with a handsome kick in the rear;” “Madam, shall I entreat94 a small box in the ear from your ladyship’s fair hands?” “Noble captain, lend a reasonable thwack, for the love of God, with that cane95 of yours over these poor shoulders.” And when he had by such earnest solicitations made a shift to procure96 a basting97 sufficient to swell98 up his fancy and his sides, he would return home extremely comforted, and full of terrible accounts of what he had undergone for the public good. “Observe this stroke,” said he, showing his bare shoulders; “a plaguy janissary gave it me this very morning at seven o’clock, as, with much ado, I was driving off the Great Turk. Neighbours mine, this broken head deserves a plaister; had poor Jack been tender of his noddle, you would have seen the Pope and the French King long before this time of day among your wives and your warehouses99. Dear Christians100, the Great Moghul was come as far as Whitechapel, and you may thank these poor sides that he hath not — God bless us — already swallowed up man, woman, and child.”
It was highly worth observing the singular effects of that aversion or antipathy101 which Jack and his brother Peter seemed, even to affectation, to bear towards each other. Peter had lately done some rogueries that forced him to abscond102, and he seldom ventured to stir out before night for fear of bailiffs. Their lodgings103 were at the two most distant parts of the town from each other, and whenever their occasions or humours called them abroad, they would make choice of the oddest, unlikely times, and most uncouth104 rounds that they could invent, that they might be sure to avoid one another. Yet, after all this, it was their perpetual fortune to meet, the reason of which is easy enough to apprehend105, for the frenzy106 and the spleen of both having the same foundation, we may look upon them as two pair of compasses equally extended, and the fixed108 foot of each remaining in the same centre, which, though moving contrary ways at first, will be sure to encounter somewhere or other in the circumference109. Besides, it was among the great misfortunes of Jack to bear a huge personal resemblance with his brother Peter. Their humour and dispositions were not only the same, but there was a close analogy in their shape, their size, and their mien110; insomuch as nothing was more frequent than for a bailiff to seize Jack by the shoulders and cry, “Mr. Peter, you are the king’s prisoner;” or, at other times, for one of Peter’s nearest friends to accost111 Jack with open arms: “Dear Peter, I am glad to see thee; pray send me one of your best medicines for the worms.” This, we may suppose, was a mortifying112 return of those pains and proceedings113 Jack had laboured in so long, and finding how directly opposite all his endeavours had answered to the sole end and intention which he had proposed to himself, how could it avoid having terrible effects upon a head and heart so furnished as his? However, the poor remainders of his coat bore all the punishment. The orient sun never entered upon his diurnal114 progress without missing a piece of it. He hired a tailor to stitch up the collar so close that it was ready to choke him, and squeezed out his eyes at such a rate as one could see nothing but the white. What little was left of the main substance of the coat he rubbed every day for two hours against a rough-cast wall, in order to grind away the remnants of lace and embroidery115, but at the same time went on with so much violence that he proceeded a heathen philosopher. Yet after all he could do of this kind, the success continued still to disappoint his expectation, for as it is the nature of rags to bear a kind of mock resemblance to finery, there being a sort of fluttering appearance in both, which is not to be distinguished116 at a distance in the dark or by short-sighted eyes, so in those junctures117 it fared with Jack and his tatters, that they offered to the first view a ridiculous flaunting118, which, assisting the resemblance in person and air, thwarted119 all his projects of separation, and left so near a similitude between them as frequently deceived the very disciples120 and followers of both . . . Desunt nonnulla, . . .
The old Sclavonian proverb said well that it is with men as with asses107; whoever would keep them fast must find a very good hold at their ears. Yet I think we may affirm, and it hath been verified by repeated experience, that —
“Effugiet tamen haec sceleratus vincula Proteus.” 80
It is good, therefore, to read the maxims121 of our ancestors with great allowances to times and persons; for if we look into primitive122 records we shall find that no revolutions have been so great or so frequent as those of human ears. In former days there was a curious invention to catch and keep them, which I think we may justly reckon among the artes perditae; and how can it be otherwise, when in these latter centuries the very species is not only diminished to a very lamentable123 degree, but the poor remainder is also degenerated124 so far as to mock our skilfullest tenure125? For if only the slitting127 of one ear in a stag hath been found sufficient to propagate the defect through a whole forest, why should we wonder at the greatest consequences, from so many loppings and mutilations to which the ears of our fathers and our own have been of late so much exposed? It is true, indeed, that while this island of ours was under the dominion128 of grace, many endeavours were made to improve the growth of ears once more among us. The proportion of largeness was not only looked upon as an ornament129 of the outward man, but as a type of grace in the inward. Besides, it is held by naturalists130 that if there be a protuberancy of parts in the superior region of the body, as in the ears and nose, there must be a parity131 also in the inferior; and therefore in that truly pious132 age the males in every assembly, according as they were gifted, appeared very forward in exposing their ears to view, and the regions about them; because Hippocrates 81 tells us that when the vein133 behind the ear happens to be cut, a man becomes a eunuch, and the females were nothing backwarder in beholding134 and edifying135 by them; whereof those who had already used the means looked about them with great concern, in hopes of conceiving a suitable offspring by such a prospect; others, who stood candidates for benevolence136, found there a plentiful137 choice, and were sure to fix upon such as discovered the largest ears, that the breed might not dwindle138 between them. Lastly, the devouter sisters, who looked upon all extraordinary dilatations of that member as protrusions of zeal139, or spiritual excrescences, were sure to honour every head they sat upon as if they had been cloven tongues, but especially that of the preacher, whose ears were usually of the prime magnitude, which upon that account he was very frequent and exact in exposing with all advantages to the people in his rhetorical paroxysms, turning sometimes to hold forth2 the one, and sometimes to hold forth the other; from which custom the whole operation of preaching is to this very day among their professors styled by the phrase of holding forth.
Such was the progress of the saints for advancing the size of that member, and it is thought the success would have been every way answerable, if in process of time a cruel king had not arose, who raised a bloody persecution140 against all ears above a certain standard 82; upon which some were glad to hide their flourishing sprouts141 in a black border, others crept wholly under a periwig; some were slit126, others cropped, and a great number sliced off to the stumps142. But of this more hereafter in my general “History of Ears,” which I design very speedily to bestow143 upon the public.
From this brief survey of the falling state of ears in the last age, and the small care had to advance their ancient growth in the present, it is manifest how little reason we can have to rely upon a hold so short, so weak, and so slippery; and that whoever desires to catch mankind fast must have recourse to some other methods. Now he that will examine human nature with circumspection144 enough may discover several handles, whereof the six 83 senses afford one apiece, beside a great number that are screwed to the passions, and some few riveted145 to the intellect. Among these last, curiosity is one, and of all others affords the firmest grasp; curiosity, that spur in the side, that bridle146 in the mouth, that ring in the nose of a lazy, an impatient, and a grunting147 reader. By this handle it is that an author should seize upon his readers; which as soon as he hath once compassed, all resistance and struggling are in vain, and they become his prisoners as close as he pleases, till weariness or dulness force him to let go his grip.
And therefore I, the author of this miraculous148 treatise149, having hitherto, beyond expectation, maintained by the aforesaid handle a firm hold upon my gentle readers, it is with great reluctance150 that I am at length compelled to remit151 my grasp, leaving them in the perusal152 of what remains153 to that natural oscitancy inherent in the tribe. I can only assure thee, courteous154 reader, for both our comforts, that my concern is altogether equal to thine, for my unhappiness in losing or mislaying among my papers the remaining part of these memoirs155, which consisted of accidents, turns, and adventures, both new, agreeable, and surprising, and therefore calculated in all due points to the delicate taste of this our noble age. But alas! with my utmost endeavours I have been able only to retain a few of the heads. Under which there was a full account how Peter got a protection out of the King’s Bench, and of a reconcilement between Jack and him, upon a design they had in a certain rainy night to trepan brother Martin into a spunging-house, and there strip him to the skin. How Martin, with much ado, showed them both a fair pair of heels. How a new warrant came out against Peter, upon which Jack left him in the lurch156, stole his protection, and made use of it himself. How Jack’s tatters came into fashion in court and city; how he got upon a great horse and ate custard 84. But the particulars of all these, with several others which have now slid out of my memory, are lost beyond all hopes of recovery. For which misfortune, leaving my readers to condole157 with each other as far as they shall find it to agree with their several constitutions, but conjuring158 them by all the friendship that has passed between us, from the title-page to this, not to proceed so far as to injure their healths for an accident past remedy, I now go on to the ceremonial part of an accomplished159 writer, and therefore by a courtly modern least of all others to be omitted.
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accomplishment
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cane
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