ABSTRACT
Thus, Wit has its Walks and Purlieus, out of which it may not stray the breadth of an Hair, upon peril of being lost. The Moderns have artfully fixed this Mercury, and reduced it to the Circumstances of Time, Place and Person. Such a Jest there is, that will not pass out of Covent- Garden; and such a one, that is nowhere intelligible but at Hide-Park Corner.
