And whereabouts in that soft bundle was hidden the wimble which bored the hole?

This may, perhaps, be accounted for from a passage in Herbert, who tells us that while the workmen were employed about the inscription, the chapel was cleared, but a soldier contrived to conceal himself, descended into the vault, cut off some of the velvet pall, and "wimbled a hole into the largest coffin."

He then proceeded to acquaint me with the Welfare of Will Wimble.

Our Friend Will Wimble is as merry as any of them, and shews a thousand roguish Tricks upon these Occasions.

I could observe Sir ROGER a little ruffled upon being thus trepanned; but our Guide not insisting upon his Demand, the Knight soon recovered his good Humour, and whispered in my Ear, that if WILL. WIMBLE were with us, and saw those two Chairs, it would go hard but he would get a Tobacco-Stopper out of one or tother of them.

As I was Yesterday Morning walking with Sir ROGER before his House, a Country-Fellow brought him a huge Fish, which, he told him, Mr. William Wimble had caught that very Morning; and that he presented it, with his Service to him, and intended to come and dine with him.

Wimble is younger Brother to a Baronet, and descended of the ancient Family of the Wimbles.

Wimble is younger Brother to a Baronet, and descended of the ancient Family of the Wimbles.

Wimble's is the Case of many a younger Brother of a great Family, who had rather see their Children starve like Gentlemen, than thrive in a Trade or Profession that is beneath their Quality.

L. [Footnote 1: Will Wimble has been identified with Mr. Thomas Morecraft, younger son of a Yorkshire baronet.

' The only original of Will Wimble, as Mr. Wills has pointed out, is Mr. Thomas Gules of No. 256 in the 'Tatler'.]

Honest Will. Wimble, who I should have thought had been altogether uninfected with Ceremony, gives me abundance of Trouble in this Particular.

Wimble and myself with him to the County-Assizes: As we were upon the Road Will.

Wimble joined a couple of plain Men who rid before us, and conversed with them for some Time; during which my Friend Sir Roger acquainted me with their Characters.

Wimble and his two Companions stopped short till we came up to them.

Wimble was the other Day relating several strange Stories that he had picked up no Body knows where of a certain great Man; and upon my staring at him, as one that was surprised to hear such things in the Country [which ] had never been so much as whispered in the Town, Will. stopped short in the Thread of his Discourse, and after Dinner asked my Friend Sir ROGER in his Ear if he was sure that I was not a Fanatick.

Wimble, as my Friend the Butler tells me, observing me very much alone, and extreamly silent when I am in Company, is afraid I have killed a Man.

He then proceeded to acquaint me with the Welfare of Will Wimble.

Our Friend Will Wimble is as merry as any of them, and shews a thousand roguish Tricks upon these Occasions.

I could observe Sir ROGER a little ruffled upon being thus trepanned; but our Guide not insisting upon his Demand, the Knight soon recovered his good Humour, and whispered in my Ear, that if WILL. WIMBLE were with us, and saw those two Chairs, it would go hard but he would get a Tobacco-Stopper out of one or tother of them.

468 (Fn. 4), 516 William, Sir Roger's huntsman 118 Willow Kate, Sir Roger's character of 118 Wills' Coffee-house 1 (Fn. 6) Wimble, Will 108, 109, 126, 131, 268

Is not it clear that Will Wimble was a gentleman, though he always lived at a distance from good company?

A wimble of the same timber was then applied, the end of which they fitted to the hole.

In some places three times three persons, in others three times nine, were required for turning round by turns the axle-tree or wimble.

Suddenly a poignant pain seized him; he felt as though wimbles were drilling into his temples.