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THE BLUNDERS, DEFICIENCIES, DISTRESSES, AND MISFORTUNES OF QUILCA.
PROPOSED TO CONTAIN ONE AND TWENTY VOLUMES IN QUARTO. BEGUN APRIL 20, 1724.
TO BE CONTINUED WEEKLY, IF DUE ENCOURAGEMENT BE GIVEN.
BUT one lock and a half in the whole house.
The key of the garden door lost.
The empty bottles all uncleanable.
The vessels for drink few and leaky.
The new house all going to ruin before it is finished.
One hinge of the street door broke off, and the people forced to go out and come in at the back door.
The door of the dean's bedchamber full of large chinks.
The beaufet letting in so much wind that it almost blows out the candles.
The dean's bed threatening every night to fall under him.
The little table loose and broke in the joints.
The passages open over head, by which the cats pass continually into the cellar and eat the victuals, for which one was tried, condemned, and executed by the sword.
