Here follow two or three pages of but little interest to the reader and the Story continues:
"But I forgot;--the Stranger and his Chum, With t'other to, to _Barth'l'mew Fair_ are come; Where, being seated, and the Supper past, They drink so deep, and put about so fast, That 'ere the warning Watchman walks about, With dismal Tone repeating,--Who goes out?[147] 'Ere St. _Paul's_ Clock no longer will withold From striking Ten, and the Voice cries,--All told.[148] 'Ere this, our new Companions, every one In roaring Mirth and Wine, so far were gone, That every Sense from ev'ry Part was fled, And were with Difficulty got to Bed; Where in the Morn, recover'd from his Drink, The new _Collegian_ may have Time to think; And, recollecting how he spent the Night, Explore his Pockets, and not find a Doit.
"Too thoughtless Man! to lavish thus away A Week's Support in less than half a Day; But 'tis a Curse attends this wretched Place, To pay for dear bought Wit in little Space: The Time shall come, when this new Tenant here, Will in his Turn _shule_ for a Pot of Beer; Repent the melting of his Cash too fast, And snap at Strangers for a Nights Repast."
[Footnote 114: Where the _Fleet Market_ is now, there was, a few Years since, a Ditch, with a Muddy Channel of Water. The Market was built at the expense of the Lord Mayor and Court of Aldermen, who receive the Rent for it.]
[Footnote 115: The Doorkeeper, or he who opens and shuts the _Jigg_, is call'd the _Jigger_.]
[Footnote 116: Billiards is a very common Game here.]
[Footnote 117: Fine Ale drank in the Coffee-Room, call'd the _Alderman_, because brew'd at Alderman _Parson's_.]
[Footnote 118: A _Runner_, is a Fellow that goes Abroad of Errands for the Prisoners.]
[Footnote 119: A common Cant word for Mumping.]
[Footnote 120: Persons who give any considerable Offence, are often try'd, and undergo the Discipline of the Pump. The Author was one of these in a drunken Frolick, for which he condemns himself.]
[Footnote 121: A spacious Place, where there are all Sorts of Exercises, but especially Fives.]
[Footnote 122: A Publick Place, free for all Prisoners.]
[Footnote 123: Where those lie who can't pay their Master's Fee.]
[Footnote 124: There are several of those _Jiggers_ or Doorkeepers, who relieve one another, and when a Prisoner comes first in, they take a nice Observation of him, for fear of his escaping.]