OLIVER GOLDSMITH'S LIFE AND TIMES, [».»•< u.
not the least), the men of Goldsmith's day wore indebted for
JIEU0, liberty to use an umbrella. Gay's pleasant poem of Tritwt
and Swift's description of a city shower, commemorate its
earlier use by poor women; by "tuek'd-up sempstresses "
and " walking maids ; " * but with even this class it was a
winter privilege, and woo to the woman of a better sort, or
to the man, whether rich or poor, who dared ut any time HO
to invade the rights of coachmen and chairmen, But Jonas
steadily underwent the staring, laughing, jeering, hooting,
and bullying; and having punished some insolent knaves
who struck him with their whipn as well m tongucH, ho
finally established a privilege which, when the Journal dm
JMxits gravely assured its readers that the king of tlio
barricades (that king whose throne has nlnce been burnt at
the top of fresh barricades on the site of the Bastille) was to
be seen walking the streets of Paris with an umbrella under
his arm, had reached its culminating point and play CM! a part
in state affairs, Excellent Mr, Hanway, having nettled the
"offered him £100 a-yoar for the daw'/" I dwtM whptlwr thin kiter
ment routs OH good authority j for It fa thotMk'k of mi uthurwim* jthsftiwuii
to do only Bcant and grudging jiiBliwo to RcynoUlH, and lm» rtwlity fctt
everything Haul agaiiiHt him, The Hogi-apliM' touk «m*h twmtwt, jinrt with
Hogarth, that ho liocaiue tmcimHoiouH how uufturly 1»« wmt totiUng IU)yui»l*tH,
* " Britain hi winter only know*) itn tud
" To guard from chilly nhuwera the walking nitUd." Uay'n fVliw,
" The t-uok'd-iip HempBtroHH walks with hiyuty Htriilon,
" "While streams run down her oil'd ««il»rolla*» mlm" 8wift'» t % Sttmtw,
Novertheleas, Mr, Bolton. Cornoy, since this Wograjthy tlwi apiwnrwl, Jnw jiro»
duced some lines a century earlier in data, which might KWIH t»» jir««v« that ih«
"nmbrolla" had hoen.in UHO in Miolmul DraytnuVi tiiun, i«wn ly tli« high-lmrtt
mistrosH of the sompBtress and the maid, " Of doves," wiy« tlutt old jmwt,
" I have a dainty paire
( "Which, •when you plwae to take the aior , ,
' . , with their nimble wingts shall fan ycm,
' That neither cold nor lieate shall tati you,
' And, like vmhrelhiB, with thoir featliora
( Sheeld you in all sorts of weathers," Notes and Querie*t ii, 028,