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SCG-C.762.005
9-16 Jan 1762:13 (1434)
The State of Europe: or Hints to an Engraver. By the Cobler
of Cripplegate.
Give your imagination full scope, and fancy a French Cock
clapping his wings, and going to crow: then introduce a
British Lion stalking up majestically to him, and, with the
utmost disdain, p-ss--g on him.
Represent the Northern Hero playing the Black Joke on his
German flute; and two great unwieldy Princesses dancing an
English jigg, or playing at leap-frog.
. . . [Several paragraphs on other European Princes]
You may give the public the King of Sardinia in the
character of a raree-show-man, playing the tune of "Over the
Hills and Far Away, " on his instrument, and a group of
Austrians, with the utmost difficulty, climbing the Alps,
and when they have reached the summit, dancing to his music.
. . . [Satire continues]
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