Preserve your purses while you please your eyes.
Reprinted in Hindley, The Old Book Collector's Miscellany, Vol. III.
1702-14.
By Her Majesties Permission.
This is to give Notice to all Gentlemen, Ladies and Others, that coming into May-Fair,[19] the first Booth on the Left Hand, over against Mr. Pinckeman's Booth; During the usual time of the Fair, is to be seen a great Collection of strange and wonderful Rareties, all A-live from several parts of the World.
Vivat Regina.
Advertisement in a collection at the British Museum.
1734.
At the Great THEATRICAL BOOTH ON the Bowling-Green behind the Marshalsea, down Mermaid-Court next the Queens Arms Tavern, during the Time of Southwark Fair (which began the 8th instant and ends the 21st), will be presented that diverting droll, call'd
The True and Ancient History of
MAUDLIN, the Merchants Daughter of BRISTOL,
AND
Her constant Lover ANTONIO,