The philosophical puppet-show, or, Snip's inauguration to the President's Chair : addressed to Sir J[oseph] B[anks], barōnetos, a celebrated conoisseur in chickweed, caterpillars, black beetles, butterflies and cockle-shells / By Simon Snip [pseud].

  • Snip, Simon, pseud.
Date:
[1785?]
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Credit: The philosophical puppet-show, or, Snip's inauguration to the President's Chair : addressed to Sir J[oseph] B[anks], barōnetos, a celebrated conoisseur in chickweed, caterpillars, black beetles, butterflies and cockle-shells / By Simon Snip [pseud]. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    l^reet, but the cry is,—There goes one of Snip’s boarders. Peggy figh’d and ihook her head. Moreover, continued I, we fhould nowferioufly rei]ec5f, that poffibly future connei5lions may be productive of a rifing generation. Peggy fmil’d and fhook her tail. I then open’d to her my fcheme of a new pup- pet-fhiow.—Don’t think, my dear, faid I, that you are to fit and interpret Punch’s ribaldry to the company.—No.—You will have nothing to do, but by day to amufe yourfelf with your fa- vorite authors; and at night to fit and take mo- ney. The former part of this lafi: fentence fuited Peggy^s, humour much; and for the latter part, I never knew a woman that had any objection to it. Now, fays I, in order to fucceed in this affair, we muff hit upon fomething new, to at- tract the attention of the public.—And whereas the Royal Family has been fhewn to advantage in wax-work, my defign is to exhibit the R—1 S—ci—y in wood-work; and herein to give all that tribute of merit due to the prefent worthy Prefident, a man who, take him all in all, “ We ne’er fhall look upon his like again.” And fo long as he is fupported by the Nobility of the kingdom, he will, I doubt not, fiand his ground againft all the Philofophers, Mathema- ticians, Phyficians, and Affronomers in the nation. He certainly is a great traveller, and fo very learned in the tefiaceous part of the creation, C 2 xhat