452) writes of Johnson's 'Billingsgate on Milton.'

"Firstly, she was pleased to attack me in very Billingsgate at a masquerade, where she was as visible as ever she was in her own clothes.

To talk of Billingsgate in comparison with these women, is to do the Holland and Flemish ladies gross injustice, English phlegm being far more silent than Dutch phlegm.

The idea of bringing the fish to Billingsgate under their own steam has already been ventilated.