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Plebeian Politics; Or, the Principles and Practices of Certain Mole-Eyed Maniacs, Vulgarly Called Warrites, Exposed: By Way of Dialogue Betwixt Two ... Several Fugitive Pieces
Excerpt from Plebeian Politics; Or, the Principles and Practices of Certain Mole-Eyed Maniacs, Vulgarly Called Warrites, Exposed: By Way of Dialogue Betwixt Two Lancashire Clowns: Together With Several Fugitive Pieces
Wn'. Neaw Turn l'd na' ha' theht' be (0 krofs, for I thout te no hurt boh I kon tell theh won think, ween fund 'awtrekafhon 'at other foke's heawfes, this laf't two year; for wheear I wur ufi hav a pint o'drink booath eends o'th, day, it would hardly be a' jil'l, an e fom pleks noan at 0, an when'otfe koo'mt' ha' meh mete awhom ov a Sunday, I'd az little okafhon for mch teeth oz tee or any mon els.
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Wn'. Neaw Turn l'd na' ha' theht' be (0 krofs, for I thout te no hurt boh I kon tell theh won think, ween fund 'awtrekafhon 'at other foke's heawfes, this laf't two year; for wheear I wur ufi hav a pint o'drink booath eends o'th, day, it would hardly be a' jil'l, an e fom pleks noan at 0, an when'otfe koo'mt' ha' meh mete awhom ov a Sunday, I'd az little okafhon for mch teeth oz tee or any mon els.
About the Publisher
Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com
This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.
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First published July 20, 2015
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About the author
Tim Bobbin
62 books1 followerJohn Collier (18 December 1708 – 14 July 1786) was an English caricaturist and satirical poet known by the pseudonym of Tim Bobbin, or Timothy Bobbin. Collier styled himself as the Lancashire Hogarth.
Born in Urmston, Lancashire (England, Great Britain), the son of an impoverished curate, he moved to Milnrow at the age of 17 to work as a schoolmaster. Marriage and nine children meant he needed to supplement his income and he began producing illustrated satirical poetry in Lancashire dialect and a book of dialect terms. His first and most famous work, A View of the Lancashire Dialect, or, Tummus and Mary, appeared in 1746, and is the earliest significant piece of Lancashire dialect to be published. He regularly travelled to Rochdale to sell his work in the local pubs where most of the business of Rochdale was conducted as there was no cloth hall at that time. People in the pubs would ask him to draw portraits of them and their friends and he would charge on the basis of the number of heads in the picture. The Lancashire dialect poetry collection, Human Passions Delineated, a work which he both wrote and illustrated, appeared in 1773. In it he savagely lampooned the behaviour of upper and lower classes alike. The etchings were widely reproduced, and some were printed on ceramics of the time, and a colourised reproduction of 25 of the plates was published in 1810. He died in 1786 leaving the sum of £50 and was buried in the churchyard of Rochdale Parish Church, St. Chad's. He wrote his own epitaph 20 minutes before he died, "Jack of all trades...left to lie i'th dark" which is inscribed upon his gravestone. He had also written a number of other humorous epitaphs for graves, a number of which can still be seen in St. Chad's churchyard.
Born in Urmston, Lancashire (England, Great Britain), the son of an impoverished curate, he moved to Milnrow at the age of 17 to work as a schoolmaster. Marriage and nine children meant he needed to supplement his income and he began producing illustrated satirical poetry in Lancashire dialect and a book of dialect terms. His first and most famous work, A View of the Lancashire Dialect, or, Tummus and Mary, appeared in 1746, and is the earliest significant piece of Lancashire dialect to be published. He regularly travelled to Rochdale to sell his work in the local pubs where most of the business of Rochdale was conducted as there was no cloth hall at that time. People in the pubs would ask him to draw portraits of them and their friends and he would charge on the basis of the number of heads in the picture. The Lancashire dialect poetry collection, Human Passions Delineated, a work which he both wrote and illustrated, appeared in 1773. In it he savagely lampooned the behaviour of upper and lower classes alike. The etchings were widely reproduced, and some were printed on ceramics of the time, and a colourised reproduction of 25 of the plates was published in 1810. He died in 1786 leaving the sum of £50 and was buried in the churchyard of Rochdale Parish Church, St. Chad's. He wrote his own epitaph 20 minutes before he died, "Jack of all trades...left to lie i'th dark" which is inscribed upon his gravestone. He had also written a number of other humorous epitaphs for graves, a number of which can still be seen in St. Chad's churchyard.
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