As he became more popular, household objects were brought into requisition for his instruction in a copious vocabulary; and whenever he appeared in the Yard ladies would fly out at their doors crying ‘Mr Baptist—tea-pot!’ ‘Mr Baptist—dust-pan!’ ‘Mr Baptist—flour-dredger!’ ‘Mr Baptist—coffee-biggin!’ At the same time exhibiting those articles, and penetrating him with a sense of the appalling difficulties of the Anglo-Saxon tongue.

Where cows are headed up to the wall and are fed with turnips in winter, the place around them very soon gets splatched with earth off the roots;

Great king of England, and my gracious lord, / The mutual conference that my mind hath had / By day, by night, waking, and in my dreams, / In courtly company, or at my beads, / With you mine alderlievest sovereign, / Makes me the bolder to salute my king / With ruder terms, such as my wit affords, / And over-joy of heart doth minister.

I will entreat you, to do what's possible to finish this everlasting separation, which will kill me soonly, if not ceasing.