KEY TO THE "SCREW LOOSE." (See Illustration.) 



VJTROWN aged, used up, and turned out of the shed, 

 Lame, spavined, and wind-galled, but yet with some blood, 

 While knowing postilions his pedigree trace, 

 Say his dam won that sweepstake, his sire won that race ; 

 And what matches he won do the ostlers count o'er, 

 As they loiter their time at some hedge alehouse door ; 

 While the harness sore gall and the spurs his side goad, 

 And the high mettled racer's a hack on the the road ; 

 Till at length having laboured, toiled early and late 

 Worn out by degrees, he plods on to his fate. 

 Blind, old, lean, and feeble, he treads round a mill, 

 And draws sand 'till the sand of his hour glass stands still. 



FROM THE "TAMING OF THE SHREW." Shakespeare. 

 ACT III., SCENE II. 



SHAKESPEARE'S IDEA OF A "SCREW LOOSE." 



(See Illustration.) 



Biondello. His horse hipped with an old mothy saddle, the stirrups of 

 no kindred : besides possessed with the glanders, and like 

 to mose in the chine ; troubled with the lampass, infected 

 with the fashions, (Farcy) full of wind-galls, sped with 

 spavins, raied with the yellows, past cure of the fives 

 (vives, "Strangles,") stark spoilt with the staggers, be- 

 gnawn with the bots ; swayed in the back, and shoulder- 

 shotten; near-legged before (foundered in the fore-feet) 

 and with a half-checked bit, and a head-stall of sheep's 

 leather; which, being restrained to keep him from 

 stumbling, hath been often burst, and now repaired with 

 knots : one girth six times pieced, and a woman's crupper 

 of velure, (velvet) which hath two letters for her name, 

 fairly set down in studs, and here and there pieced 

 with pack-thread. 



