Volume 1

Portraits and lives of remarkable and eccentric characters.

Date:
[1819?]
Catalogue details

Licence: Public Domain Mark

Credit: Portraits and lives of remarkable and eccentric characters. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    To the first print of this singular hostess, copied by David Loggan, are added the follow¬ ing verses: You laugh now, Goodman two shoes, but at what— My Grove, my Mansion-house, or my dun Hat ? Is it for that my loving Chin and Snout Are met, because my Teeth are fallen out: Is it at me, or at my RUFF you titter: Your Grandmother, you Rogue, ne^er wore a fitter. Is it at Forehead^s Wrinkle, or Cheek’s furrow, Or at my Mouth, so like a coney-Biirrough. Or at those orient Eyes that ne’er shed tear. But when the Exciseman comes, that’s twice a year ? KISS ME, and tell me true, and when they fail. Thou shalt have larger Pots and stronger Ale. From the above verses, this woman is supposed to have been the last that wore a ruff in England. The print from which the present one is taken is very much like the original painting, which is yet extant, and in the possession of Mr. John Denley, bookseller, of Bloomsbury.