Misfortunes of the enchanted snuff-box (1710)

So to the Wool-pack they came; the Dr. a little sowred to be treated so familiarly, receiv'd them with a grave Air, but upon a little Recollection, brandilh'd his Snuff-Box, and offer'd Mr. Mayor a Pinch; the old Man told him indeed he never took Snuff himself ; but if he would give him some in a Paper, he would carry it for a Present to his Wife; this inifinitely oblig'd the Doctor; and Mr. Mayor, to shew his Gratitude, call'd for a Pot of Ale, and drank his Health in a Bumper. Having mention'd so considerable a Part of the Dr. as his Snuff-Box, I am bound by the Rules of History to give you the description of it; the Matter indeed was but plain Oak, (but  pretended to be part of the Royal Oak) neatly inlaid with Silver; there you may see a young Monarch peeping out of a Hollow-Tree, and three  Airy Crowns just dropping on his Head, with this Inscription; Sacra Jovi Quercus: On the Reverse was inscrib'd Passive Obedience and Non-Resistance restor'd in 1710, if the Dr. be not out in his Computation, because there were two sower Hieroglyphicks with Muskets on their Shoulders, that seem'd watching their Motion, and it is much suspected that those same Muskets were loaded 'with, some Whiggish Antimonarchical Principles: Is not this the Snuff-Box out of which the Dr. takes, and indeed by which he divines! l ask your Pardon for this long Digression tho' it is only with a Design to make another; the Dr.you must know is by Principle a Peripatetick, but of which Class it is not yet agreed, some by the Hieroglyphicks think him an Egyptian, others pronounce him a Bethlemite, and I can tell you for a Truth a Cosen Bess lays Claim, to him, but since he honours the former Society with his Countenance, I think that is not very material.  In Imitationof the Ancients his Equipage is small, tho' polite, consisting only of the Snuff-Box for the Drawng- Room, and a little Pocket-Book neatly boun'd for the Pulpit, at the Opening of which he has been often observed to put on on so many gracefu Airs; that the World began to suspect it might be Oxford Jests, or  the ridicule of his own Sermons; but at last it was unluckily discover'd by a Low Church-man that sat in the Gallery to have a Looking-Glass neatly fasten'd in the Cover...