"Twas fuch a light involv'd thy towers, O Rome!
The dire prefage of mighty Cæfar's doom,
When the fun veil'd in ruft his mourning head,
And frightful prodigies the skies o'erspread.

380

Hark! the drum thunders! far, ye crowds, retire :
Behold! the ready match is tipt with fire,
The nitrous store is laid, the smutty train
With running blaze awakes the barrel'd grain;
Flames fudden wrap the walls; with fullen found 385
The fhatter'd pile finks on the fmoky ground.
So, when the years shall have revolv'd the date,
Th' inevitable hour of Naples' fate,

Her fapp'd foundations shall with thunders shake,
And heave and tofs upon the fulphurous lake;
Earth's womb at once the fiery flood shall rend,
And in th' abyfs her plunging towers descend.

Confider, reader, what fatigues I've known,
The toils, the perils, of the wintery town;
What riots seen, what bustling crowds I bore,

399

395

How oft' I crofs'd where carts and coaches roar :

Yet fhall I blefs my labours, if mankind
Their future fafety from my dangers find.
Thus the bold traveller (inur'd to toil,
Whose steps have printed Afia's defert foil,
The barbarous Arabs haunt; or fhivering croft
Dark Greenland's mountains of eternal frost;
Whom Providence in length of years restores
To the wish'd harbour of his native fhores)
Sets forth his journals to the public view,
To caution, by his woes, the wandering crew.

L 2

400

405

And

And now complete my generous labours lie,
Finish'd, and ripe for immortality.

Death shall entomb in duft this mouldering frame,
But never reach th' eternal part, my fame.

410

When Wand G―, mighty names ! * are dead;
Or but at Chelsea under cuftards read;
When critics crazy bandboxes repair,

And tragedies, turn'd rockets, bounce in air;
High rais'd on Fleet-street posts, confign'd to fame, 515
This work fhall fhine, and walkers blefs my name.

Probably Ward and Gildon. N.

INDEX

I N D

E X.

Autumn, what cries then in ufe

Almanacks, useless to judicious walkers

Alley, the pleasure of walking in one
not to be walked in by night

13

ii. 83

Arundel-street

ii. 587

Author, his wish

B

Bavaroy, by whom worn

i. 53

i. 117

i. 161

ii. 28

ii. 30

Baker, to whom prejudicial

Butchers, to be avoided

ii. 43

C

Country, the author's love of his

Civic crown

Cane, the convenience of one

an amber-headed one useless

the abufe of it

Camlet, how affected by rain

Coat, how to choose one for the winter

Chairs and chariots, prejudicial to health
Coachman asleep on his box, what the fign
his metamorphofis

despises dirty shoes

Chairmen, an observation upon them

his whip dangerous

his care of his horfes

ii. 310

ii. 311

iii. 165

i. 154

Church monuments, foretel the weather

i. 167

Cheese not lov'd by the author

Countryman, perplexed to find the way
Catharine-ftreet

Chairmen, their exercise in frofty weather
Covent-garden

ii. 343 347

Coaches, dangerous in fnowy weather

Cries of the town, obfervations upon them
Christmas, what cries forerun it

a feason for general charity

thofe that keep them uncharitable

ii. 42

attended with ill accidents

ii. 511

despised by walkers

ii. 570

kept by coxcombs and pimps

ii. 577

a stop of them defcribed

a man furrounded by them

Cloacina, Goddess of common-fhores
Charing-crofs

Christmas-box

Charity, moft practised by walkers

ii. 454

Coachmen, a fight of them

Crowd, parted by a coach

Cellar, the misfortune of falling into one

Chairmen, law concerning them

their poles dangerous

Constable, his confideration

Coach fallen into a hole, described

Critics, their fate

D

D'oily ftuffs, useless in winter
Drugget-filk, improper in cold weather
L 4

iii. 25
ibid.