Patience; Or, A Bad Job. [REYNOLDS (Frank)].

Patience; Or, A Bad Job: An Original Tale. Written by the Author of Speculation.

Folio broadside, etching with letterpress. Sheet size 437 x 235 mm. Trimmed within plate on three sides.
London: published by Laurie & Whittle, No.53 Fleet Street, 20th November, 1798

BM Satire 9335. ESTC locates copies at the British Library (2), Oxford (3), Harvard, McMaster, Princeton and University of Illinois.

Having delivered a sermon on the patience of Job, a parson loses his temper with a servant who has spilled a cask of ale. When reproached by his wife the parson asks "Did Job e'er lose a Barrel of such Ale?"

"Twas at some country place, a Parson preaching, / The virtue of long sufferance was teaching; / And so pathetically did exhort / His list'ning Congregation, and in short / Discoursed so much of Job, and how he bore / with such exceeding pleasantry his woes, / Faith twas enough to make a man suppose / Job wished for more."

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