Note 160 — ENGRAVED FANS OF THE SEVENTEENTH AND EIGHTEENTH CENTURIES. PART II.

‘Poor Bladud, he was manger grown; his dad, which zum call vather, Zet Bladud pig, and pig Bladud, and zo they ved together. Then Bladud did the Pigs invect, who, grumbling, ran away, And vound whot Waters presently, which made him fresh and gay. Bladud was not so grote a Vool, but seeing what Pig did doe, He Beath’d and Wash’t, and Rins’d, and Beath’d, from Noddle down to Toe. ........... And then he built this gawdy Toun, and sheer’d his Beard spade-ways, Which voke accounted then a Grace, though not so nowadays. Thwo thowsand and vive hundred Years, and Thirty-vive to That, Zince Bladud’s Zwine did looze their Greaze, which we Moderns call Vat.’ Coryate, Crudities.