Spectacle secrets / [George Cox].

  • Cox, George
Date:
[1844]
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Licence: Public Domain Mark

Credit: Spectacle secrets / [George Cox]. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    of the matter, and to exonerate themselves from the contaminating connexion, which appeared to place their reputation for that £< quality called honesty” in jeopardy. I have received several impromptu effusions from humorous correspondents in different parts of the king¬ dom, where I have been and unmasked the impositions of spectacle cheats. One says— “ They make not spectacles, you say ; With that I can’t agree, Both wife and I have worn their trash, Now spectacles are we.”—Quiz. Another— ‘ ‘ A celebrated chemist has ascertained, by very accurate analysis, that there is enough brass in the countenances of the spectacle men of Duke’s Place and Petticoat Lane to make spectacle-frames for all the spinsters in the neighbourhood.”-—Satirist. I have, of course, laid myself open to the furious and vindictive hostility of those quacks, whose nefarious practices are exposed, and whose career will be checked in proportion as this treatise is circulated and dis¬ passionately perused. But, secure of the approbation of all my readers who will avail themselves of the informa¬ tion contained in these pages, I may conclude with satisfaction, since Friends I have made whom envy must commend, And not one foe whom I would wish a friend. THE END. R. COTTLE, PRINTER, BASINGSTOKE.
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