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PUNCH, OR THE LONDON CHARIVARI.
[March 8, 1884.
BRUIN IN COKAIGNE.*
[Russia declares that although she had undertaken not to seize upon Merv, this did not apply to its voluntary submission.]
Bruin loquitur—
Who says I am greedy ? He does me great wrong,
This bias against me ’s exceedingly funny ;
But prejudice is so confoundedly strong !
My tastes are most simple ; a little wild honey
Suffices my needs, in a general way.
A Saint could not be more abstemious—normally,
And as to my prowling in search of fat prey,
The charge is absurd, I abj ure it most formally.
It hurts me, it really does hurt me, to tind
The rest of the world so devoid of all charity.
J’m a generous brute, with a genial mind,
And I potter about in a state of hilarity,
* Cokaigne (or Kitchen-land), a legendary Paradise of sensual delights,
where pigs ready-roasted are said to run about with knives and forks, crying, ;
“ Come, eat us ! ” where “ the gees irosted on the spitte ” fly about, crying, j
“Gees! al hote ! al hote ! ” and where stewed larks drop voluntarily into
the traveller’s mouth. i
Like a middle-aged gentleman taking a stroll,
And if, why of course if I happen to hit on
Cokaigne, where plump porkers will run about whole,
Ready-cooked, what is that to John Bull or Lord Lytton ?
I own I had sworn off of pig—in a sense,
That is, stolen pig, and that pledge I won’t violate.
I ’ll not join a pig-hunt on any pretence
(Although I’ve had rather good sport in my eye o’ late),
But really, you know, if fat porkers will come _
And solicit my fangs, as it were, in this fashion,
What am I to do ? It looks tempting. Nyum, Nyum !
My mouth waters ! Leo will get in a passion,
I’ve not the least doubt. He wants all the tit-bits,
He likes vastly well on his rounds to discover
Eat geese of Cokaigne ready cooked on their spits,
Whilst I,—well, of simple plain f'otpd I’rna lover.
But when a bonne-bouche just drops into one’s maw,
Unsought—as in this case—and prays to be gobbled,
PUNCH, OR THE LONDON CHARIVARI.
[March 8, 1884.
BRUIN IN COKAIGNE.*
[Russia declares that although she had undertaken not to seize upon Merv, this did not apply to its voluntary submission.]
Bruin loquitur—
Who says I am greedy ? He does me great wrong,
This bias against me ’s exceedingly funny ;
But prejudice is so confoundedly strong !
My tastes are most simple ; a little wild honey
Suffices my needs, in a general way.
A Saint could not be more abstemious—normally,
And as to my prowling in search of fat prey,
The charge is absurd, I abj ure it most formally.
It hurts me, it really does hurt me, to tind
The rest of the world so devoid of all charity.
J’m a generous brute, with a genial mind,
And I potter about in a state of hilarity,
* Cokaigne (or Kitchen-land), a legendary Paradise of sensual delights,
where pigs ready-roasted are said to run about with knives and forks, crying, ;
“ Come, eat us ! ” where “ the gees irosted on the spitte ” fly about, crying, j
“Gees! al hote ! al hote ! ” and where stewed larks drop voluntarily into
the traveller’s mouth. i
Like a middle-aged gentleman taking a stroll,
And if, why of course if I happen to hit on
Cokaigne, where plump porkers will run about whole,
Ready-cooked, what is that to John Bull or Lord Lytton ?
I own I had sworn off of pig—in a sense,
That is, stolen pig, and that pledge I won’t violate.
I ’ll not join a pig-hunt on any pretence
(Although I’ve had rather good sport in my eye o’ late),
But really, you know, if fat porkers will come _
And solicit my fangs, as it were, in this fashion,
What am I to do ? It looks tempting. Nyum, Nyum !
My mouth waters ! Leo will get in a passion,
I’ve not the least doubt. He wants all the tit-bits,
He likes vastly well on his rounds to discover
Eat geese of Cokaigne ready cooked on their spits,
Whilst I,—well, of simple plain f'otpd I’rna lover.
But when a bonne-bouche just drops into one’s maw,
Unsought—as in this case—and prays to be gobbled,
Werk/Gegenstand/Objekt
Titel
Titel/Objekt
Bruin in Cokaigne
Weitere Titel/Paralleltitel
Serientitel
Punch
Sachbegriff/Objekttyp
Inschrift/Wasserzeichen
Aufbewahrung/Standort
Aufbewahrungsort/Standort (GND)
Inv. Nr./Signatur
H 634-3 Folio
Objektbeschreibung
Objektbeschreibung
Bildunterschrift: Russia declares that although she had undertaken not to seize upon Merv, this did not apply to its voluntary
submission.
Maß-/Formatangaben
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Werktitel/Werkverzeichnis
Herstellung/Entstehung
Künstler/Urheber/Hersteller (GND)
Entstehungsdatum
um 1884
Entstehungsdatum (normiert)
1879 - 1889
Entstehungsort (GND)
Auftrag
Publikation
Fund/Ausgrabung
Provenienz
Restaurierung
Sammlung Eingang
Ausstellung
Bearbeitung/Umgestaltung
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