Punch: Punch (6.1844)

Punch's Twelfth Night Characters!

Daniel O'Diddle. *unch.

My countrymen—that they may pay the i*ent

To live upon potatoes are content.

And I resort to vegetable means ;

"For when I feed on them, I live on Greens.

"The end doth crown the work," 'tis said.
Then I am very much afraid,
No crown on Punch can e'er descend,
Because his work will never end.

The Sheriff £>ennytrumpet.

Though long with borrowed light I walk'd abo"1'
Punch has at last completely snuff"'d me out.
The daw in peacock's leathers each one scorns,
So let the humbled Moon draw in his horns.

- - »„.<„„t<.«n- The Mesmerist.

-r\r.r. Apollo Peripatetic,

xansee uoo. r„.„„* p0^Pn flnnotdmiht By certain passes made before the eyes;

To lengthen life, a hint we set I'll go from Covent Gaiden, clo not doubt,

Direct from the United States; When there appears a worthier lessee
>Ti= said that even « Nature's debt" j Some managers have humbugs great turn d out-
America repudiates. And any manager may turn out me.

One being can another mesmerise. {;

Jenkins (he power of causing sleep can bo
For to a horrid pass he's brought the Poiy^Sj