The Will of a Virtuoso.
I Nicholas Gimcrack being in sound health of mind, but in great weakness of body, do by this my last will and testament bestow my worldly goods and chattels in manner following:
Imprimis, to my dear wife,
- One box of butterflies,
- One drawer of shells,
- A female skeleton,
- A dried cockatrice.
Item, to my daughter Elizabeth,
- My receipt for preserving dead caterpillars.
- As also my preparations of winter May-dew, and embryo pickle.
Item, to my little daughter Fanny,
- Three crocodile's eggs.
And upon the birth of her first child, if she marries with her mother's consent,
- The nest of a humming-bird.