Punch (8.1845)

PUNCH'S VALENTINES FOR 1845.

The Vegetable Pill Vendor.

Graham, your measures, spite of puff,
Are always fill'd with nauseous stuff,
In quackery you 're always great,
1 ou precious pi//-er of the State.

The Penite Knight. Shakspeare's Nurse,

I seek my Valentine in vain, Britannia did her son discard,- -

Through all the busy town :
Will Peter, ne'er be heard again 1
I fear they 've put him down.

uxannia aiu ner son discard- pipe,'
Poor Shakspeare left at home to V. .
When thou didst kindly nurse the *><
For that I '11 be your Valentine

The Political Plrouettlst.

Shre there is none but thou could glide
With so much grace from side to side ;
w*hy to so many ways incline,
False, fickle, faithless Valentine ?

The Civic Jeremy Diddler.

Jeremy Diddler—very odd it looks,
That you are in so many folks' good books ;
Oh, may your name ne'er be in books of mine !
I wdl not have you for a Valentine.

The Prince of Sports«»en

Mr sportsman bold, oh, is it true, a
Hundreds you kill'd at one b<il"^
Had Fortune cast your lot in tr"
Zounds, what a poult'rer you'd