Emendator has doubtless restored the sense to many puzzling passages in Shakspeare, but he certainly is mistaken here in reading prigging for pugging.
H. B. J.
Carlisle.
London.—Is the following, which was copied October 11, 1811, from a MS. pasted on Spitalfields Church at that time, worth preserving in the pages of "N. & Q."? Could any of your numerous correspondents furnish me with the author's name?
"London.
"Houses, churches, mixt together;
Streets cramm'd full in ev'ry weather;
Prisons, palaces, contiguous;
Sinners sad and saints religious;