By the Invention of _Eggs_, Page 4. is meant Perquisites. "He cannot conclude a Paragraph in his 5th _Page_, without owning he received that important Part of the History of Pudding, from old Mr. _Lawrence_ of _Wilsden Green_, the greatest Antiquary of the present Age."
This old _Lawrence_ is a great Favourite of the D--s; he is a facetious farmer, of above eighty Years of Age, now living at _Wilsden Green_, near _Kilburn_ in _Middlesex_, the most rural Place I ever saw: exactly like the Wilds of _Ireland_. It was here the D--n often retired _incog._ to amuse himself with the Simplicity of the Place and People; where he got together all that Rigmayroll of Childrens talk, which composes his _Namby Pamby_. Old _Lawrence_ told me, the D--n has sate several Hours together to see the Children play, with the greatest Pleasure in Life: The rest he learned from the old Nurses thereabouts, of which there are a great many, with whom he would go and smoke a Pipe frequently, and cordially; not in his Clergyman's Habit, but in a black Suit of Cloth Clothes, and without a Rose in his Hat: Which made them conclude him to be a Presbyterian Parson.
This Mention of old _Lawrence_, is in Ridicule to a certain great Artist, who wrote a Treatise upon the Word _Connoisseur_ (or a Knower) and confesses himself to have been many Years at a loss for a Word to express the Action of Knowing, till the great Mr. _Prior_ gave him Ease, by furnishing him with the Word _Connoissance_. Our D--n had drawn a Drole, Parallel to this, _viz._ _Boudineur_, a Pudding Pyeman; and _Boudinance_, the making of Pudding Pies: But several Men of Quality begging it off, it was, at their Request, scratch'd out, but my Friend, the _Amanuensis_, remembers particularly its being originally inserted.
If the Reader should ask, Who is that K-- _John_ mentioned in the fourth Page, and which I ought to have taken in its Place. I beg leave to inform him, that by K. _John_ is meant the late Q. ----, with whom the D-- of _M----_ was many Years in such great Favour, that he was nick named K. _John_; it was in that Part of the Q--'s Reign, that Sir _John_ Pudding, by whom is meant **** _you know who_, came in Favour; it is true, the Name is odd, and seems to carry an Air of Ridicule with it, but the Character given him by this allegorical Writer, is that of an able Statesman, and an honest Man.