Note 6 — THE DRURIAD, &c.
Reading edition
As posterity may be puzzled to understand the meaning of these words, know, all men, by these presents, that the joke consists in Mr. Follett, the clown, coming forward and sitting down in the front of the stage, with a basket containing three or four immense carrots; which, assisted by some intro-susceptive power in the vegetable, he has the appearance of devouring whole, to the great delight of the British audience.
Indocti stolidique et depugnare parati Si discordet eques, media inter carmina poscunt Aut ursum, aut pugiles; hic nam plebecula gaudet. Verum equitis quoque jam migravit ab aure voluptas Omnis ad incertos oculos, et gaudia vana.