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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    f '9 ] And when weVe eot fhut of each troublefome tike, With a bumpaty bumpaty bnmp ; Why then, my brave boys, we ihail be all alike, All numpaty numpaty nump. So being in Science all equally famous. And plumpaty plumpaty plump ; To the Goddefs of Dullnefs we’ll ling Te lau- damus. And rumpaty rumpaty rump. Harkye, Fiddler—What was it that Friar Bacon’s Brazen Head faid ? ’ Fiddler,—Sir, the Head fpoke thus: Time is, Time was, Time’s part. Punchy—True: Time is, that I am Sir Jofeph Margin; and Sir Jofeph I will be, by G—. Time was, that I was only plain Punch; but, thanks to my own impu- dence, and the impudence of my bet-^ ters, that time’s paft. Well, there is more in fympathy than the world dreams of; for how the devil iltould Friar Bacon’s brazen head, which has been demoliihedfo long ago, have ever thought about me.—But I muft dreis for company.—Exit Punch, Well, Peggy, fays I, what do you think of the fong ? I think, faid fhe. It is droll enough. I would fhew it to the Parfon of the pariflt, fays I, if I was acquainted with him. Yes, replied fhe, and what would be the confequence?—when he rode to preach on Sunday, inffead of meditating the great truths he had to deliver, he would be thinking all D 2 the