Meet no regard: the trousers they despise,

And spurn the name of Bloomer!

The Month, by Albert Smith and John Leech, November, 1851.

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Hamlet on Vaccination.

To vaccinate or not, that is the question,

Whether ’tis better for a man to suffer

The painful pangs and lasting marks of smallpox

Or to bare arms before the surgeon’s lancet,

And, by being vaccinated, end them. Yes,