"Whew!" cried Mortimer, mopping his forehead, "you'd pay five shillings for this at the hummums.

"It is also our Imperial Will and Pleasure, that our good Subjects the Sweaters do establish their Hummums in such close Places, Alleys, Nooks, and Corners, that the Patient or Patients may not be in danger of catching Cold.

The Hummums "in Covent Garden was one of the first of these baths (bagnios) set up in England.

" Between Samuel Hoare's hospitable roof and the Hummums in Covent Garden Crabbe seems to have alternated, according as his engagements in town required.

I have my home with my friends here (Mrs. Hoare's), and exchange it with reluctance for the Hummums occasionally.

Button's Coffee-house, the resort of the wits of Queen's Anne's time, was in Russell-streetwe believe, near where the Hummums now stand.

And is it not a more real, as well as notorious thing to us, than the London Tavern, or the Crown and Anchor, or the Hummums, or White's, or What's-his-name's, or any other of your contemporary and fleeting taps?

HUMMUMS, The, iii. 349. HUMOUR.

189, n. 1; Hummums, iii. 349

"It is also our Imperial Will and Pleasure, that our good Subjects the Sweaters do establish their Hummums in such close Places, Alleys, Nooks, and Corners, that the Patient or Patients may not be in danger of catching Cold.

The Hummums "in Covent Garden was one of the first of these baths (bagnios) set up in England.