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To The Editor Of The Freemasons' Magazine.
drinking to the health of the loquacious doctor , who is likely to perform much more important cures with his tongue , than ever he will be able to effect by his prescriptions . If you think , Mr . Editor , that these hints may be serviceable to others labouring under the distemper of which I am so happily cured , vou may freely communicate them to the public by the channel ot vour Magazine , which has been the source of much amusement to , * Sir , your very humble Servant , M 1 SOLAUS .
Humourous Account Of A Religious Ceremony, Performed At Rome.
HUMOUROUS ACCOUNT OF A RELIGIOUS CEREMONY , PERFORMED AT ROME .
[ From " A Ramble through Holland , France and Italy , " just published . '}
WHAT to do with my shallow domestic , Abel , I know notthe fellow hath been perverted by an Irish renegado , and is crossing his forehead and beating his breast before every Virgin Mary he passes : —if I take him to a church there ;"; , no getting him away . ; and if I leave him at home I am obliged , when I return , to go to the . churches to find him .
As the holy week is at hand , pilgrims are flocking in from all parts of the globe . % Previous to their partaking of the general pardon , it is required that they shall have paid their adoration to the crucifix at the top of the stair-case that was brought from Jerusalem ; and which is said to be taken from Pontius Pilate ' s house ; being the same that our
Saviour frequently ascended to undergo examination . I have practised myself to look at the Catholic ceremonies with temper ; but this scene was so infinitely ridiculous , that , without any evil intentions , I threw a whole body of pilgrims into the utmost consternation . * The stair-case consists of eight-and-twenty marble steps ; each of
which may hold about ten people abreast , and at this season of the year it is constantly crowded . —The Pope himself durst not mount it on his feet . —Upwards of two hundred pilgrims were at this instant ascending , to pay homage to the crucifix on their knees , and in this attitude moving on from step to step towards the top . Figure to yourself this . They first appeared tome to be afflicted with the
group hip gout—they moved like horses with the stringhalt . I could still have born it all , had I not seen Abel grubbing on in the midst of them , which made me burst into such a fit of laughter , that the holy ones were thrown into such a scene of confusion as you have never , witnessed . Suddenly recollecting the expence of plush breeches , I com * F 2
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To The Editor Of The Freemasons' Magazine.
drinking to the health of the loquacious doctor , who is likely to perform much more important cures with his tongue , than ever he will be able to effect by his prescriptions . If you think , Mr . Editor , that these hints may be serviceable to others labouring under the distemper of which I am so happily cured , vou may freely communicate them to the public by the channel ot vour Magazine , which has been the source of much amusement to , * Sir , your very humble Servant , M 1 SOLAUS .
Humourous Account Of A Religious Ceremony, Performed At Rome.
HUMOUROUS ACCOUNT OF A RELIGIOUS CEREMONY , PERFORMED AT ROME .
[ From " A Ramble through Holland , France and Italy , " just published . '}
WHAT to do with my shallow domestic , Abel , I know notthe fellow hath been perverted by an Irish renegado , and is crossing his forehead and beating his breast before every Virgin Mary he passes : —if I take him to a church there ;"; , no getting him away . ; and if I leave him at home I am obliged , when I return , to go to the . churches to find him .
As the holy week is at hand , pilgrims are flocking in from all parts of the globe . % Previous to their partaking of the general pardon , it is required that they shall have paid their adoration to the crucifix at the top of the stair-case that was brought from Jerusalem ; and which is said to be taken from Pontius Pilate ' s house ; being the same that our
Saviour frequently ascended to undergo examination . I have practised myself to look at the Catholic ceremonies with temper ; but this scene was so infinitely ridiculous , that , without any evil intentions , I threw a whole body of pilgrims into the utmost consternation . * The stair-case consists of eight-and-twenty marble steps ; each of
which may hold about ten people abreast , and at this season of the year it is constantly crowded . —The Pope himself durst not mount it on his feet . —Upwards of two hundred pilgrims were at this instant ascending , to pay homage to the crucifix on their knees , and in this attitude moving on from step to step towards the top . Figure to yourself this . They first appeared tome to be afflicted with the
group hip gout—they moved like horses with the stringhalt . I could still have born it all , had I not seen Abel grubbing on in the midst of them , which made me burst into such a fit of laughter , that the holy ones were thrown into such a scene of confusion as you have never , witnessed . Suddenly recollecting the expence of plush breeches , I com * F 2