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Pamphlet's and Parodies on Political Subjects

Pamphlet's and Parodies on Political Subjects

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London:

  Printed By And For William Hone,
  Ludgate Hill.

  1821.

  ONE SHILLING.

     —"Many, whose sequester'd lot
     Forbids their interference, looking on,
     Anticipate perforce some dire event;
     And, seeing the old castle of the state,
     That promis'd once more firmness, so assail'd,
     That all its tempest-beaten turrets shake,
     Stand motionless expectants of its fall."

     Cowper.

     NOTE. Each Motto that follows, is from Cowper's "Task."

THE AUTHOR'S DEDICATION TO HIS POLITICAL GODCHILD.

     To

     Doctor Slop,

     In Acknowledgment Of

     Many Public Testimonials Of His Filial Gratitude;

     And To The Nursery Of Children Six Feet High, His Readers,

     For The Delight And Instruction Of Their Uninformed Minds

     This Juvenile Publication

     Is Affectionately Inscribed,

     By

     The Doctor's Political Godfather,

     The Author.

**The Publication wherein the Author of "The Political House that Jack Built" conferred upon Dr. SLOP the lasting distinction of his name, was a Jeu d'Esprit, entitled "Buonapartephobia, or cursing made easy to the meanest capacity"—It is reprinted, and may be had of the Publisher, Price One Shilling.




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THIS IS THE HOUSE THAT JACK BUILT




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     THIS IS

      THE WEALTH

     that lay
     In the House that Jack built.




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       ——"A race obscene,

       Spawn'd in the muddy beds of Nile, came forth,
       Polluting Egypt: gardens, fields, and plains,
       Were cover'd with the pest;

       The croaking nuisance lurk'd in every nook;
       Nor

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