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An Account of the arrival of a White Bear, at the house of Mr. Ratcliff in Bishopsgatestreet: as also of Faustina, the celebrated Italian singing woman; and of the copper-farthing dean from Ireland.
AND LASTLY,
Of the wonderful Wild Man that was nursed in the woods of Germany by a wild beast, hunted and taken in toils; how he behaveth himself like a dumb creature, and is a christian like one of us, being called Peter; and how he was brought to court all in green, to the great astonishment of the quality and gentry, 1726.
We shall begin with a description of Peter the savage, deferring our other curiosities to some following papers.
Romulus and Remus, the two famous wild men of antiquity, and Orsin that of the moderns, have been justly the admiration of all mankind: nor can we presage less of this wild youth, as may be gathered from that famous and well known prophecy of Lilly's, which being now accomplished, is most easily interpreted:
When
