The Comic Almanack, Volume 1 / An Ephemeris in Jest and Earnest, Containing Merry Tales, Humerous Poetry, Quips, and Oddities

by William Makepeace Thackeray; Gilbert Abbott À Beckett; Henry Mayhew; Horace Mayhew; Albert Smith

PROCLAMATION.

Whereas some evil-minded folks,

It ill becomes to crack such jokes,

Have made a most unseemly rout,

By spreading false reports about,

That Francis Moore, the fam'd Physician,

Is still alive, in sound condition;

And all we said about his dying,

Last year, was nothing else but lying;