The Old Cheese. [KING (William)].

The Old Cheese; An Original Tale, Recited by Mr. Fawcett, at Covent-Garden Theatre.

Folio broadside, etching with letterpress, 18th century watermark. Sheet size 443 x 244 mm. Trimmed within plate on three sides.
London: published by Laurie & Whittle, 53, Fleet Street, 1st February, 1798

BM Satire 9332. ESTC locates copies at the British Library, Oxford (2), NYPL and UCLA.

A farmer throws cheese across a table, smashing plates and windows. The verses relate the tale of a loutish and hen-pecked husband who gives an exhibition of his domestic authority to impress his guests, but is finally quelled by his wife.

"Young Slouch, the farmer, had a jolly wife, / That knew all the conveniences of life, / Whose diligence and cleanliness supplied / The wit which Nature had to him denied."

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