The razor seller: ; a fellow in a market town, ; most musical cry'd razors up & down, ; and offer'd twelve for eighteen pence; ; with cheerfulness the eighteen pence he paid, ; and proudly to himself in whispers said, ; this rascal stole the razors, I suppose. ; vide Pindar: ; J.J.
The verses in the lettering are an abbreviated version of verses in a poem, 'The razor seller. Ode', by Peter Pindar (John Wolcot), published in his Odes, Epistles &c. by Wolcott, called Peter Pindar; with a sketch of his life, Paris: Parsons and Galignani, 1804, pp. 130-132, and elsewhere. The purchaser of the razors is described as a "country bumpkin"
