Add the shield of State paternal
For the ingredients of our journal!
Double, double, stench and trouble,
Pot boil, and poison bubble!
The World, August 26, 1885.
The agitation to which this Parody calls attention may have been initiated with all sincerity and purity of motives, but it has directly encouraged the hawking about of some of the most abominable publications which have ever yet been publicly exposed for sale.
To protect “fallen” women is, no doubt, a most laudable and philanthropic object, but it should be possible to do this without either annoying other members of the community, or outraging public decency. Some of the best streets of London were recently rendered impassable to modest women by the foul-mouthed ruffians who exposed these filthy publications for sale, and touted their wares in language more vile and repulsive than even the publications they disposed of dared to venture on.
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“All the World’s a Stage.”
On the 27 August, 1885, Truth contained no less than twenty parodies of the well known speech commencing—“all the World’s a Stage, and all the men and women merely players.”