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Points of Humour, Part 1 (of 2)

Part 1 — Illustrated by the Designs of GEORGE CRUIKSHANK.

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Ten Engravings On Copper and Twelve Wood Cuts

London: Published By C. Baldwyn, Newgate Street 1823.

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"Let mee play the fool: With mirth and laughter let old wrinkles come; And let my liver rather heat with wine, Than my heart cool with mortifying groans, Why should a man, whose blood is warm through, Sit like his grandsire, cut in alubaster? Sleep when he wakes, and creep into the jaundice by being peevish?" Shakspear

CONTENTS

PREFACE.

POINT I. THE POINT OF HONOUR.

POINT II. THE SHORT COURTSHIP.

POINT III. YES OR NO?

POINT IV. EXCHANGE NO ROBBERY.

POINT V. THE JOLLY BEGGARS; OR LOVE AND LIBERTY, A CANTATA, BY ROBERT BURNS

POINT VI.

POINT VII.

POINT VIII.

POINT IX. THE DOWNFALL OF HOLY CHURCH.

POINT X. A VISIT WITHOUT FORM.

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