tinkerwise

Updated: May 3, 2025

And now I speak of reformation, vous avez, Fox the tinker, the liveliest emblem of it that may be; for what did this parliament ever go about to reform, but, tinkerwise, in mending one hole they made three? But I have not ink enough to cure all the tetters and ring-worms of the State. I will close up all thus.

Various - Character Writings of the 17th Century