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.

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

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

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.