Two showers of a browner sort.
A sea, consisting of a dozen
large waves; the tenth bigger than
ordinary, and a little damaged.
A dozen and a half of clouds,
trimmed with black, and well
conditioned.
A rainbow a little faded.
A set of clouds after the
French mode, streaked with lightning, and
furbelowed.
A new-moon, something decayed.
A pint of the finest Spanish
wash, being all that is left of two
hogsheads sent over last winter.
A coach very finely gilt,
and little used, with a pair of dragons,
to be sold cheap.
A setting sun, a pennyworth.[410]
An imperial mantle, made for
Cyrus the Great, and worn by Julius
Caesar, Bajazet, King Harry
the Eighth, and Signior Valentin.[411]
A basket-hilt sword, very convenient to carry milk in.
Roxana’s night-gown.
Othello’s handkerchief.
The imperial robes of Xerxes, never worn but once.
A wild-boar, killed by Mrs. Tofts[412] and Dioclesian.
A serpent to sting Cleopatra.
A mustard-bowl to make thunder with.
Another of a bigger sort,
by Mr. D——is’s directions,
little
used.[413]
Six elbow-chairs, very expert
in country-dances, with six
flower-pots for their partners.
The whiskers of a Turkish bassa.
The complexion of a murderer
in a band-box; consisting of a large
piece of burnt cork, and a
coal-black peruke.
A suit of clothes for a ghost,
viz., a bloody shirt, a doublet
curiously pinked, and a coat
with three great eyelet-holes upon the
breast.
A bale of red Spanish wool.
Modern plots, commonly known
by the name of trapdoors, ladders of
ropes, vizard-masks, and tables
with broad carpets over them.
Three oak cudgels, with one
of crab-tree; all bought for the use of
Mr. Pinkethman.
Materials for dancing; as
masks, castanets, and a ladder of ten
rounds.
Aurengezebe’s scimitar, made by Will Brown in Piccadilly.
A plume of feathers, never
used but by Oedipus and the Earl of
Essex.
There are also swords, halberts, sheep-hooks, cardinals’ hats, turbans, drums, gallipots, a gibbet, a cradle, a rack, a cart-wheel, an altar, a helmet, a back-piece, a breast-plate, a bell, a tub, and a jointed baby.[414]