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Updated: May 12, 2025
Then you find a shop window with three blue bottles, and a green one in the middle." "How can be any middle to three, without it is one of them?" "Then let it be two of them. How you contradict me! Take this little bottle, and the man with a gold braid round a cap, and a tassel with a tail to it, will fill it for four-pence when you tell him who you are." "Yes, yes; I do now comprehend.
The vogue of the satire even demanded a key, as may be seen in an advertisement in the London Daily Post for May 17: This Day is published, Price Four-Pence. A Key to Pasquin, address'd to Henry Fielding Esqre. Mr Pasquin's own advertisements for his little theatre are not without the zest with which our beef-eating ancestors attacked politics, social abuses and one another.
Munn also gives the annual importation of the principal Indian goods into England, by the East India Company, and the price each article sold for in England; according to this table, the quantity of pepper was 250,000 lbs., which, bought in India for twopence halfpenny, sold in England for one shilling and eightpence: 150,000 lbs. of cloves, which bought in India for ninepence, sold in England for six shillings: 150,000 lbs. of nutmegs, bought for four-pence, sold for two shillings and sixpence: 50,000 lbs. of mace, bought for eightpence, sold for six shillings: 200,000 lbs. of indigo, bought for one shilling and twopence, sold for five shillings: 107,140 lbs. of China raw silk, bought for seven shillings, sold for twenty shillings: and 50,000 pieces of calico, bought for seven shillings a piece, sold for twenty-six shillings.
Indeed, early as it was when Dame Eliza began to stir, it seemed that others could be earlier still, for the door was ajar, and the learned student of Cambridge had taken himself off, with a mind which was too intent upon the high things of antiquity to stoop to consider the four-pence which he owed for bed and board.
One-third of the money sent by the Queen for the soldiers stuck in his fingers. He paid them their wretched four-pence a-day in depreciated coin, so that for their "naughty money they could get but naughty ware." Never was such "fleecing of poor soldiers," said Leicester.
But the market, at this day, is so altered, that the lessee gives four-pence per yard; is tied to the mode of building, and obliged to leave the premisses in repair. The itch for building is predominant: we dip our fingers into mortar almost as soon as into business.
One-third of the money sent by the Queen for the soldiers stuck in his fingers. He paid them their wretched four-pence a-day in depreciated coin, so that for their "naughty money they could get but naughty ware." Never was such "fleecing of poor soldiers," said Leicester.
Being a wery reg'lar gen'l'm'n, he din'd ev'ry day at the same place, where it was one-and-nine to cut off the joint, and a wery good one-and-nine's worth he used to cut, as the landlord often said, with the tears a-tricklin' down his face, let alone the way he used to poke the fire in the vinter time, which wos a dead loss o' four-pence ha'penny a day, to say nothin' at all o' the aggrawation o' seein' him do it.
It's a verra passable smoke an' no' dear at four-pence." "That cigar costs eight pounds a hundred," said Blackie, nettled. "Ye'll end yeer days in the puirhouse," said Tam. True to his promise he swept over Lille the next morning and to his amazement no particular resistance was offered.
Such pilgrims often were illiterate, and it was astonishing how they remembered all the folk they had to pray for at Jerusalem; for every poor peasant who could not leave his native village, but gave threepence or four-pence to the wanderer, asked to be remembered in the land "where God walked". Perhaps there were aids to remembrance.
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