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Rowlandson the caricaturist; a selection from his works, with anecdotal descriptions of his famous caricatures and a sketch of his life, times, and contemporaries (1880)

Grego, Joseph, 1843-1908, Rowlandson, Thomas, 1756-1827 · London, Chatto and Windus · leaf 89

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HIS 1 FORKS AND TIMES. 73 What Baron, or Squire, or Knight of the Shire Lives half so well as a Holy Friar ? After supper of Heav'n I dream, But that is fat pullets and clouted cream ; Myself by denial I mortify, With a dainty bit of a Warden pie. … THE HOLY FRIAR. I'm cloth'd in sackcloth for my sin, With old Sack wine I'm lin'd within, A chirping cup is my Matin song, And the vesper's bell is my bowl — ding dong ! What Baron, or Squire, or Knight of the Shire Lives half so well as a Holy Friar ? May 16, 1807. / Smell a Rat, or a Rogue in…

Rowlandson, Thomas, 1756-1827 · English wit and humor, Pictorial

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