[559] A face or dial-plate, sometimes also called pendulum dial.
[560] Book iii., p. 294.
[561] What would old Randle Holme have said, had he seen the elegant (!) breast-pins displayed in the shop-windows of one of the principal West End jewellers, forming the tasteful device of a tobacco-pipe on a quart pot; another with a rebus for: “You are an artdistingué ornaments.
“When you see this Rummer you may praise or blame it,
But come in, and taste its liquor, you will like that better.”
“This Rummer which you see here cannot give you much pleasure.
Come in, and taste its liquor, you will like that better,
But first, see what is written on the other side.”
On the other side:—
“Pay before you go away,
Otherwise you will have to leave your hat or your cloak.”
[564] Liber Albus, Book iii., Part ii.