Such, as like Vermine o're this Land did crawle,
And grew so rich, they gaind the Devill and all.
[186] "On a broadside, entitled as above, is a woodcut, which represents a 'Projector' who has a pig's (? fox's) face, a fox's ears, screws for legs, and fish hooks for fingers, bears a measure of coal, and a barrel of wine on his legs respectively, tobacco pipes, dice, roll tobacco, playing cards, and a bundle of hay slung to his body, papers of pins on his right arm, and a measure for spirits on his left arm, a barrel (? for soap or butter) and a dredger, (? for starch) on the skirts of his coat.
"The introduction of screws here may be illustrated by the speech of Alderman Chambers, who was prosecuted in the Star Chamber for saying that merchants were more screwed up and wronged in England than in Turkey; he was fined £2000."—Catalogue of Prints and Drawings in the British Museum, No. 263.
[101.]Loe I, that lately was a Man of fashion
The Bug-beare and the Scarcrow of this Nation
Th' admired mighty Mountee banke of Fame,
The Juggling Hocus Pocus of good name,
The Bull-begger, who did affright and feare,