A compleat and humorous account of all the remarkable clubs and societies in the cities of London and Westminster, from the R[oyal]-S[ociet]y down to the Lumber-Troop ... / Compil'd from the original papers of a gentleman who frequented those places upwards of twenty years. [Anon].

  • Ward, Edward, 1667-1731.
Date:
1756
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Licence: Public Domain Mark

Credit: A compleat and humorous account of all the remarkable clubs and societies in the cities of London and Westminster, from the R[oyal]-S[ociet]y down to the Lumber-Troop ... / Compil'd from the original papers of a gentleman who frequented those places upwards of twenty years. [Anon]. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    3';.2'4 9lSSr Beef-Stake C//^.. Man’s GefHire and Deportment with fuch wonderful' Bxa&nefs, that he can give ye the true Refemblance of a, whim heal Lord, an aiFe&ed Critic, a formal Block¬ head, a talkative Argumentator, a fanatical Beau, or, indeed, mimick any Man’s Gate, manner of talking, and all his habitual Vanities and Singularities with fo much Art and Pleafantry, that he can fhew any Sort, of Coxcomb his ridiculous Likelinefs, as truly as a Looking-Glals; fo that by this Means he always pre¬ fen <res a full Community, for whatever Members neg¬ lect to appear upon the Club-Night, is affur’d in his Abfence to be fo comically reprefented by their offici-- ous Buffoon, that they are made the jell and Laughing- flock of the whole Company: The Fear of which,, makes them all fo very punctual, that they feldom fail of having a full Club, where every Thing is per-, form’d with' fo much Rule and Order, that a Man can neither cafe his Brains of their frothy. Excrement, But it mnflbe put to the Vote, or fiep into the Vault to empty his (Lifts with'an Order of the Board.,. The fame Spirit of Ambition to be thought witty that pof- felfes the Kit-Cat Members, is equally diffufive thro’ tliis Society alfo, for the Man of Title and Authority is not here contented to be only reverenc’d for his. Wealth and Dignity, but defires to perpetuate his Me¬ mory in their bulky Regifter, and to be complemented more for his Wit than for his Riches, from whence it may be reafonably conjectur’d, that fome of the difo gulled Members of the foregoing Club, where the foft Formers of the Beef-Stake Society, or rather new Rump Parliament, who, perhaps being offended that others fhould be allowed before themfelves to be Jpollo1 s Dar¬ lings, turn’d fa&ious Difienters from the Kit-Cat Com-. Biunity, and fo fix’d an oppoiite A Humbly of revolted Wits, in hopes thereby to eclipfe the Glory of their Competitors; and, like true bred Britons to diew their Refentment in Contempt of Kit-Cat Pies, very juftly gaye the Preference to a Rump-Stake, moil wifely a- greein§.