of all-curing
medicines in his bags behind him, and was with a great deal of confidence
and success, AEsculapius like, distributing health around him: we must
observe, that our physician had taken his stand among the stalls of
orange and gingerbread merchants, shoemakers, glovers, and other such
retailers.

Mr. Carew therefore approached him, and planted himself close by the
horse, and, wetting his fingers with the spirits, rested his hand upon
the steed, as an unconcerned person might have done; at the same time
putting aside the hair, he rubbed the turpentine upon the bare flesh,
which immediately beginning to burn and smart, the afflicted quadruped
began to express his sense of pain, by flinging his hinder legs, gently
shaking himself, and other restless motions, which made the poor
mountebank wonder what had befallen his horse; but the pain increasing,
the disorderly behaviour of the steed increased proportionably, who now
began to kick, prance, stand on end, neigh, immoderately shake himself,
utterly disregarding both his bridle and rider, and running a tilt
against the stalls of oranges, gingerbread, gloves, breeches, shoes, &c.,
which he overthrew and trampled under foot; this occasioned a scramble
among the boys for the eatables, and there were some who were but too
unmerciful to the scattered goods of the poor shoemakers and glovers,
who, enraged by their several losses, began to curse the doctor and his
Rosinante, who was all this while capering, roaring, and dancing among
their oranges, panniers of eggs, &c., to the entire ruin of the
hucksters, who now began to deal very heavy blows, both on the
unfortunate horse and his distressed master. This odd spectacle and
adventure attracted the eyes and attention of the whole fair, which was
all in an uproar, some laughing, some crying, (particularly the poor
suffering pedlars,) some fighting, and others most unmercifully cursing
and swearing; to make short of the story, the doctor rode about the fair,
without either hat or wig, at the pleasure and discretion of his horse,
among the ruined and overturned stalls and the dissipated mob, who
concluded both the quack and the steed to be either mad or bewitched, and
enjoyed their frolicsome situation.

The doctor, being no longer able to keep his seat, fell headlong into the
miry street; the horse ran into a river, and rolled himself over several
times, to the entire confusion and ruin of the inestimable pills and
plas