Twentye shyllynges you must paye,
Or in Chokey you must staye
For a week!”
From The Jingoldsby Legends. By Jonas Jingoldsby, Esq. The Latest Edition.
This little anonymous sixpenny pamphlet was published at 84, Fleet Street, London, about 1882. In addition to the above parody, and A Lay of St. Dunstan’s which appears a few pages back, it contained “The Inspector a’ Trapping ’em,” “Sir Wilfrid the Beerless,” “The Night and the Ladies,” and other imitations of the Ingoldsby Legends, both in prose and verse.
There are two imitations of The Ingoldsby Legends in The Corkscrew Papers, published anonymously in 1876 by W. H. Guest, 9, Paternoster Row, London.
One is styled “Tamborini, the Poet,” the other “Pygmalion and His Statue,” they are long, and of no particular interest.
JOSEPH ADDISON.
Born, 1672. | Died, 17 June, 1719.