Cox's Fragmenta An Historical Miscellany

Erotic misdemeanors in an Irish bean-field, the recipe for a frog barometer fresh from the French court, a parrot convicted of heresy and burnt at the stake in Spain, and a Dutch stage effect for ejecting a wig-by means of a spring-during Hamlet's ghost scene are just some of the masterpieces of understated journalism collected by Francis Cox and contained in his
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