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BNL.746.032
18 Dec 1746:21 (2331)
Seeing Mr. K---- at his door, I took the liberty of telling
him, if I had not seen clocks and watches in his shop, I
should not have known, from the inscription affixed to his
house, what he had to sell: . . . I design therefore, says
he [the shopkeeper], very shortly, to add the following
rhymes, that the unlearned reader may not be altogether
unacquainted in what [commodities] I deal.
Abstruse expression [I] discuss
The explanation follows thus----
Here clocks are sold,
Both new and old;
Here pocket watches may be bought;
a true compound
Of wheels turn'd round
By springs within, or weights without:
The tremblin bell
Doth loudly tell
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