THE ADVENTURES OF TIMOTHY PEACOCK, ESQUIRE
or
FREEMASONRY PRACTICALLY ILLUSTRATED

by Daniel P. Thompso

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PREFACE

CHAPTER I

Come let us prepare,
We brethren that are."

CHAPTER II

Fer opem, Lucina

CHAPTER III

"'Tis a rough land of rock, and stone, and tree,
Where breathes no castled lord nor cabined slave;
Where thoughts, and hands, and tongues are free,
And friends will find a welcome foes a grave."

CHAPTER IV

"Thirty days hath September,
April, June and November,
All the rest have thirty-one
But February alone."

CHAPTER V

"Romans, countrymen and lovers!" - Brutus

CHAPTER VI

"Wunder-wurkeinge."

Old Masonic Manuscript

CHAPTER VII

"Tityre, tu patulæ recubans sub tegmine fagi." - Virgil

CHAPTER VIII

"Still louder, Fame! thy trumpet blow;
Let all the distant regions know
Freemasonry is this:"

CHAPTER IX

"Love's but an ague that's reversed,
Whose hot fit takes the patient first;
That after burns with cold as much
As iron in Greenland does the touch."

CHAPTER X

Streak of Daylight

CHAPTER XI

"Lobsters are not fleas, damn their souls."
Peter Pindar, for Sir Joseph Banks

CHAPTER XII

"Help, muse, this once, we do implore,
And we will trouble thee no more." - Hudibras improved

CHAPTER XIII

Intry, mintry, cutry corn,
Apple seed and apple thorn;
Wier, brier, limber lock,
Three geese in a flock. - Nursery Ballad

CHAPTER XIV

"There are more things in heaven and earth, Horatio,"
Than any but Freemasons ever dreamed of. - Shakespeare improved

CHAPTER XV

"For mystic learning wondrous able,
In magic, talismen are cabal;
Whose primitive tradition reaches
As far as Adam's first green breeches."

CHAPTER XVI

"O what a fall was there, my countrymen!"
"Some luckless star, with baleful power
And mischief fraught, sure rules the hour."

CHAPTER XVII

Amoto quaeramus seria ludo - Horace

CHAPTER XVIII

"Off with his head: so much for Buckingham."

CHAPTER XIX

"There is no doubt but Morgan richly deserved his fate." - Massachusetts Newspaper