Ashton, John, b. 1834 · London Chatto and Windus · leaf 368
a cunning dog, got into a private room, to rub the powder ofrotten post upon his leg. Which done, he returns to thekitchen, and plunged his leg into the kettle of scalding hotwater which made him roar out like a town bull, and what wasworst, he had like to have lost his leg. Lord Pembroke was once… … The frontispiece is supposed to represent the followingscene :— The Earl of Rochester being out of favour at theCourt took private lodgings on Tower Hill, where being indisguise, he set up a mountebanks stage upon the hill, andspoke to the Mob in the following manner. Gentlemen and Ladies. Here is…
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