The colour of her dress is also described in a tract, before quoted from [39]—"And Prince Roberts Monkey dare not come thither, lest the Parliaments Bitch should tear her green coat off from her back."
Her food is described in another tract [50]—"She would eat no oatmeal, nor lome of walls to cure her infirmitie, but the longest whitest sugar plums she could put into her mouth, were most delightfull to her taste, and had such a ravenous appetite to fruit that she would swallow all but the stones, and having gotten a delectable bit in her mouth, she would onely suck the juice out of it and then spit out the rest.... Moreover this Monkey was and is by nature a notable plunderer not onely of studdies and closets, into which, if she got, she would teare the books, spill the ink, and eat the sweetmeats."
This is about all I dare reproduce about this pet of Prince Rupert's, the remainder of these tracts being filled with political allusions, which are somewhat hard to be understood now, and of no interest to this book, the remainder being written somewhat more coarsely than usual. But enough has been said about them to show how the satirists of that age seized upon any thing which they could turn to their purpose.
[64] Memoirs of Prince Rupert and the Cavaliers, by Eliot Warburton. Lond. 1849.
[65] This is reproduced on p. 360 of "Chap Books of the 18th Century," by John Ashton. Lond. 1882.
[66] These italics are mine.
[51.]A Citizen for Recreations Sake
To see the Countrie would a journie make,
Some dozen mile, or little more,
Taking his leave of friends two months before;