“The turnkey leads him to the Debtors’ Door.”
J. B. Fisher.
This parody originally appeared in a publication called Town-Talk, but was afterwards reprinted in a scarce little volume of poems entitled “Plaintive Tales,” by a Comedian. Published by W. Tilley, Chelsea, London, in 1819. This book is now principally sought after by collectors because it has an early illustration by George Cruikshank, on which the name is incorrectly spelt Cruikshanks.
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An Elegy
Written in the Long Vacation.
The vacant streets proclaim the ‘parting day,’
The loaded coaches setting off, you see,
The Gownsman homeward bends his joyous way,
And leaves the college and the town to me.