Thames-Ribaldry
. Sir ROGER seemd a little shocked at first, but at length assuming a Face of Magistracy, told us,
That if he were a Middlesex Justice, he would make such Vagrants know that Her Majesty's Subjects were no more to be abused by Water than by Land.
We were now arrived at
Spring-Garden
, which is exquisitely pleasant at this time of Year. When I considered the Fragrancy of the Walks and Bowers, with the Choirs of Birds that sung upon the Trees, and the loose Tribe of People that walked under their Shades, I could not but look upon the Place as a kind of
Mahometan
Paradise. Sir
Roger
told me it put him in mind of a little Coppice by his House in the Country, which his Chaplain used to call