Imprimis, there's a table blotted; A tattered hanging all besnotted; A bed of flocks, as we may rank it, reduced to rug, and half a blanket; A tinder-box, as people tell us; A broken-winded pair of bellows. A pair of tongs, bought from a broker, A fender and a rusty poker. A penny-pot, and bason, this Designed for water, that for piss ..... Item, if I am not mistaken. A mouse-trap, with a bit of bacon, A candlestick, without a snuffer, Whereby his fingers often suffer; And chairs a couple (I forgot 'em), But each of them without a bottom. A bottle-standish, pen unmended, His inventory thus is ended.
John Winstanley 1678?-1750
An inventory of the furniture of a collegian's chamber (excerpt)