Meane beautie doth soone fade: therof playn hee, / Who nothing loves in woman, but her blee.

… Their lifebreath stays to beblow 'er clouds to the fourfar corners of Oldenworld.”

Likewise, in The Continong (the Continent as they imagine it to be pronounced by a Frenchman) Wigan is contrasted, this time more defensively, with the delights, foods, and smells of abroad.

Increased tone of the muscular fibres of the middle coat of the intestines may not infrequently give rise to a remora in the passage of their contents, and the effect of many of that class of medicines called astringents appears to be owing to their tonic powers.