ed for the Improvement of the Modern Wits.
Written by _Myself_ Esq; Professor of Dulness and Bombast. Price 6 _d._

_From Nothing comes Nothing, and there remains Nothing._

From a Copy-Book in the _Blue-Coat_ Hospital.

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Errata:

The List of Editors was despeckled in scanning. All periods
(full stops) were supplied by the transcriber.

Editor's Introduction:

By Swine who nee'r provide Bumfodder
_spelling unchanged (taken from primary text)_

Primary Text:

Title Page:
All title pages-- including Part 1, issued as a separate ARS
publication-- are essentially identical.
--The last part of the second paragraph (after "... Nation.") varies.
--The name "Bethleham-Wall" is spelled "Bethlehem" in Part 3.

Part 2:
Will make a T d more lasting;
_shown as printed_

Part 3:
Names the Nymph that I adore.
_text reads "Npmph"_
_Save us from sudden Death_, was said,
_text reads "wa ssaid"_

Part 4:
Shall lay (on Pain of Flagellation)
(From lowest Club, to that call'd Royal,)
_close parenthesis missing from both lines_
He'el feed on a Jest, that is broke with your Wind,
_spelling unchanged_
By Swine who nee'r provide Bumfodder
_spelling unchanged (quoted in editor's introduction)_
E'er I that Suit procure.
_text has comma at end_
Professor of Dulness and Bombast. Price 6 _d._
_text reads "Picre"_

Further Notes:

Why are _Doll_'s Teeth so white, and _Susan_'s black?
The Reason soon is known.
_Doll_ buys her Teeth which she doth lack,
But _Susan_ wears her own.

This verse is a translation of Martial V.43:

_Thais habet nigros, niveos Laecania dentes
Quae ratio est? Emptos haec habet, illa suos._

_P. S. Quintus_

Pope Sixtus V (= Quintus).

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