I heard magnificent accounts of the balls, parties, sleighings, and country frolics, which take place […]

[…] if ever you prove false one, to another since I have taken such paine to bring you together let all pittifull goers betweene be cald to the worlds end after my name, call them all Panders, let all constant men be Troylusses all false woemen Cressids, and all brokers betweene panders

There is a generation of men, whose unweighed custome makes them clack out any thing their heedleſs fancy ſprings

It is characteristic of Cobbett that he could always be relied on to produce conjuror-like from any subject one of his many King Charles' heads.