Category: Humour

The Comical Pilgrim; or, Travels of a Cynick Philosopher... Thro' the most Wicked Parts of the World, Namely, England, Wales, Scotland, Ireland, and Holland

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Chapters

1. Part 1

Transcriber’s Note: The spelling in this text is appropriate for the period in which it was written and published. The text has been checked for errors and a list of changes tha...

2. Part 2

_What dismal Horror, and as dismal Gloom, Invades the hallow’d Silence of this Room! Where Majesty in Mourning sat, to wait The wreched News of his more wretched Fate; Curst Spa...

3. Part 3

At last, I got into _Yorkshire_, where, beyond _Northallerton_, meeting with a Herdsman, I was almost frighted out of my Wits, for this Fellow was a strange Creature, wonderfull...

4. Part 4

They are much inclin’d to Choler, for hur _Welch_ Plood is soon mov’d, and then hur stamp and stare, and scrat hur Pole, and vent hur Fury in Ud-splutter-a-nails, and will fight...

5. Part 5

The Castle at _Edinburgh_ is reckon’d as impregnable as a _Scotchman_’s sear’d Conscience; and their Capital contains but one Broad Street, by which is an University containing...

6. Part 6

_Let’s on, and live the nobler Life of Sense; To all the Powers of Love and mighty Lust, In spite of formal Fops I will be just. What Ways soe’er conduce to my Delight, My Sense...

7. Part 7

From _London-Derry_ I went to _Colrain_, a Seaport Town divided by the _Byrne_ Water into Two Parts, so that it stands in the Counties of _Derry_ and _Antrim_, which last Shire...

8. Part 8

From _Rotterdam_ I went to _Delf_, where I observ’d that every _Mynheer_ shall walk the Streets as Usurers go to Bawdy-Houses, all alone and melancholly; and their Apparel is ci...