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Fiddles, flutes, horns, drums, swords, bayonets, muskets, operatic costumes, and stage properties generally were hurled in a heap on the stage. The gentlemen Mohocks, who signalized themselves on this occasion, did damage to the amount of nearly one thousand pounds, though it is said they made it up to the manager afterward by subscription.
The adventure did him no good, for when he returned to Shrewsbury he formed, with Vetch and others of his kidney, a gang in imitation of the Mohocks, as they were called the band of dissolute young ruffians who then infested London, wrenching off knockers, molesting women in the streets, pinking sober citizens, and tumbling the old watchmen into the gutters.
Within Whitehall you are safe enough; but I would not go out except with a couple of men, if I were you." I told him I always took one, at least. "Well; I would take two," he observed. "There was that murder last week, in Lincoln's Inn Fields put down to the Mohocks. Well; it was a gentleman of my own who was killed, though that is not known; and it was no more Mohocks than it was you or I."
Never in the club's history had a member breakfasted in dress clothes and in such disreputably disheveled dress clothes! Such dissolute mohocks were a stumbling-block and an offense, and the gaunt member, who had prided himself on going by clockwork all his life, felt his machinery in some way dislocated by the spectacle.
Do you remember how frightened Swift was of the Mohocks? He had some reason to fear. "Was there a Watchman took his hourly rounds Safe from their blows or new invented wounds" in these last days of Queen Anne? Their way was to gather and take plenty of liquor, "then make a general sally and attack all that are so unfortunate as to walk the streets through which they patrol.
One lady swooned with terror, one or two crouched on the floor of the coach; the dandies gesticulated and called for help. "They will kill us! they will kill us!" screamed the finest beau among them. "The watch! the watch! The constables!" "'Tis worse than the Mohocks," cried another, but his hand so shook he could not have drawn his sword if he had dared.
Benbow and Punchard on the scene: And Nelly Hind's bashed portal closes On bandy legs and Roman noses; and ending thus: Carmen concludo sine mora: "Intus si recte ne labora," Lloyd, the master, mightily. The rage of the persons chiefly concerned knew no bounds, and this good came of it, that the Mohocks troubled Shrewsbury streets no more.
"Ay, and a noble one, too, Quilt more's the pity! You've heard of the Marquis of Slaughterford, belike?" "Of course; who has not? He's the leader of the Mohocks, the general of the Scourers, the prince of rakes, the friend of the surgeons and glaziers, the terror of your tribe, and the idol of the girls!" "That's him to a hair?" cried Terence, rapturously. "Och! he's a broth of a boy!"
I sat down on a bench and left Bunny to talk to them; I have never been so tired of anything in my life. Even if the next train was punctual we had to wait for an hour, and by no chance could we reach Oxford before half-past seven. We should have been annoyed in any case, but Jack and I were very irritated because the Mohocks were meeting that evening, and we had men dining with us.
We can't be all warriors in the family!" "I never heard your lordship laid claim to be one!" says Maria. "Never, my dear; quite the contrary! Will is our champion, and one is quite enough in the house. So I dare say with the two Mohocks; George is the student, and Harry is the fighting man.
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