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" crab, or to hang hi body oner as if he were 

 " drunken, as I have feen fome horfemen doe. 

 " Neither ought he to carry his legs fo clofe 

 " to his horfe's fides, that hee cannot give any 

 " motion therewith, except hee firft thruft 

 " them forth. — Neither mull he carry his legs 

 " (out) flaring like flilts (without ioynts, as 

 " Saint George painted on horfe-backe) be- 

 " fore his horfe's fore-fhoulder," &c. I have 

 been as correct as poifible, in the orthography 

 of the above quotations, for the ufe of that 

 worthy gentleman, who lately publifhed certain 

 genuine Shakefpearian MSS. ; and who, no 

 doubt, has more in petto, for the farther amufe- 

 ment of the public. 



The prefent times, mature however they 

 ought to be in the fcience, are far enough 

 from deficient in caricatures of horfemanfhip. 

 Obferve that tall, thin figure, riding up Rotten 

 Row. bolt-upright upon his horfe, as though he 

 were impaled, his ft irrup -leathers of an excef- 

 five length, the extremity of his toe barely 

 touching the ftirrups, as if afraid of it ; his lily 

 hands adorned with ruffles volant, and his head 

 with a three-cocked hat, as {harp as a north- 

 eafter ; the head of his fteed decked out with 

 extraordinary trappings, and the flern fecured 

 by a crupper. This is a Toe-jockey, or a 

 taylor on horfe-back. But let not my readers 

 milundcrfland me. I here fpeak not of aclual, 



but 



