Punch and Judy, with illustr. by G. Cruikshank, accompanied by the dialogue of the puppet-show, an account [by J.P. Collier] of its origin, and of puppet-plays in England |
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Страница 76 - SALLY IN OUR ALLEY OF all the girls that are so smart There's none like pretty Sally; She is the darling of my heart, And she lives in our alley. There is no lady in the land Is half so sweet as Sally; She is the darling of my heart, And she lives in our alley.
Страница 33 - Observe the audience is in pain, While Punch is hid behind the scene: But, when they hear his rusty voice, With what impatience they rejoice! And then they value not two straws, How Solomon decides the cause, Which the true mother, which pretender Nor listen to the witch of Endor.
Страница 76 - Think, my lord ! By heaven, he echoes me, As if there were some monster in his thought Too hideous to be shown.
Страница 30 - Punch, should he by word or deed oppose my sovereign will and pleasure? and then, perhaps, I may, if I can find leisure for it, give you the trouble of a second letter. ' But if you intend to tell me of the original of puppet-shows; and the several changes and revolutions that have happened in them since Thespis, and I do not care who, that is Noli me tangere!
Страница 74 - Mr Punch is one jolly good fellow, His dress is all scarlet and yellow, And if now and then he gets mellow, It's only among his good friends. His money most freely he spends ; To laugh and grow fat he intends ; With the girls he's a rogue and a rover ; He lives, while he can, upon clover When he dies — it's only all over ; And there Punch's comedy ends.
Страница 12 - Author that rises uppermost, and all answers from his companion are looked upon as impertinencies or interruptions. Harlequin's part is made up of blunders and absurdities ; he is to mistake one name for another, to forget his errands, to stumble over Queens, and to run his head against every post that stands in his way. This is all attended with something so comical in the voice and gestures, that a man, who is sensible of the folly of the part, can hardly forbear being pleased with it.
Страница 35 - was some time fiddler to a puppet-show ; in which capacity he held many a dialogue with Punch, in much the same strain as he did afterwards with the mountebank doctor, his master upon the stage. This zany, being regularly educated, had confessedly the advantage of his brethren.
Страница 73 - PUNCH AND JUDY Enter Punch. After a few preliminary squeaks, he bows three times to the spectators— once in the centre, and once at each side of the stage, and then speaks the following PROLOGUE. Ladies and Gentlemen, pray how you do? If you all happy, me all happy too. Stop and hear my merry littel play ; If me make you laugh, me need not make you pay.
Страница 56 - sees through the thin pretence,' and dismisses the doctor with a few derogatory kicks. Death at length visits the fugitive ; but P. lays about his skeleton carcass so lustily, and makes the bones of his antagonist rattle so musically with a bastinado, that ' Death his death's blow then received.
Страница 45 - Oh, barken now to me awhile, A story I will tell you Of Mr. Punch, who was a vile Deceitful murderous fellow : Who had a wife, a child also And both of matchless beauty ; The infant's name I do not know, Its mother's name was Judy. Right tol de rol lol, etc, But not so handsome Mr. Punch, Who had a monstrous nose, sir ; And on his back there grew a hunch That to his head arose, sir. But then, they say that he could speak As winning as a mermaid ; And by his voice - a treble squeak He Judy won - that...