The whim

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01/09/2012

The whim

Print shows a rake seated behind the bar in a drinking establishment, next to a warm stove, a drink in one hand and a pipe in the other, to the left stands a woman serving a customer at the bar. Includes four lines of verse: "If ever I marry a wife, / I'll marry a landlord's daughter; / Then I can sit in the bar, / And drink cold brandy & water."

Date & Place: London : Publish'd by Laurie & Whittle, 53 Fleet Street, 1808 Decr. 12.

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