“Dainty noses, noble masters,
Who, by the jingling of the glasses,
Are prepared for a ’smoke;’
If you look for the finest growth,
The best Varinas? Come then at once
To the Walloon Milkmaid,” &c.
[516] Pierce Pennyless, Supplication to the Devil, 1593.
[517] These remains are engraved in Archer’s Vestiges of Old London.
[518] Gentleman’s Magazine, March 1842.
[519] A row of booths on the ice opposite the Temple.
[520] Randle Holme, book iii, ch. viii., p. 345.
[521] Dr Johnson’s explanation that they received their name from the town of Sedan, whence they were introduced into England, is evidently a mistake—for the French copied them from us. See Tallemant des Réaux, “Contes et Historiettes,” vol. vii., p. 102.
[522] Coach and Sedan pleasantly disputing for Place and Precedence. 4to, 1636.
[523] Roxburghe Ballads, vol. i., fol. 546, entitled “The Coaches Overthrow, or a joviall Exaltation of divers tradesmen and others for the suppression of troublesome Hackney Coaches.”
[524] Decker’s English Villanies, 1632.