The Pictorial Press: Its Origin and ProgressJackson, Mason
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The Pictorial Press: Its Origin and Progress
Jackson, Mason
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[Illustration: CARICATURE, 1642.]
Another satirical pamphlet has a woodcut representing Cavaliers and
Roundheads exciting their dogs to fight. It is entitled, '_A Dialogue or
rather a Parly between Prince Rupert's Dogge whose name is Puddle, and
Tobies Dog whose name is Pepper, &c._ _Whereunto is added the challenge
which Prince Griffin's Dog, called Towzer, hath sent to Prince Rupert's
Dog Puddle, in the behalfe of honest Pepper, Tobie's Dog. Moreover, the
said Prince Griffin is newly gone to Oxford to lay the wager, and to
make up the Match._' In this satire, which is very highly flavoured,
both Cavaliers and Roundheads are pelted with very vigorous epithets,
but in the end the Roundhead dog is converted by his opponent, and
seals his recantation in a very striking manner.
There is a tirade against the Jesuits entitled, '_A Peece of ordnance
invented by a Jesuite, for Cowards that fight by Whisperings, and raise
jealousies to overthrow both Church and State, which with the help of a
private Ensign in the Cabbinet Councell, or Westminster Hall is able to
doe more mischiefe at twentie miles distance, than a whole Regiment of
stout Souldiers, at Musket-shot_. _Which grievance is by way of
Remonstrance humbly presented to the consideration of the Parliament._'
This tract has a woodcut of a man firing a cannon formed of the figure
of a man.
[Illustration: CARICATURE, 1643.]
'_Hell's Hurlie-Burlie, or a Fierce contention between the Pope and the
Devill_,' is illustrated; and there is a pamphlet, with a woodcut,
entitled, '_The Devill's White Boyes: A Mixture of Malicious Malignants,
with their much evill and manifold practises against the Kingdome and
Parliament, with a bottomlesse Sack-full of Knavery, Popery, Prelacy,
Policy, Treachery, Malignant Trumpery, Conspiricies, and Cruelties,
filled to the top by the Malignants, laid on the shoulders of Time, and
now by Time emptied forth, and poured out, to show the Truth, and shame
the Devill_. Beneath, the woodcut are the following verses:--
'Malignants are the Divell's Agents still,
The Sack is _England_, which they strive to fill
With misery and mischief, and this Sack
Full stufft is laid upon Times aged back;
_Time_ pours it out now in an angry mood
That all their knaveries may be understood.'
On the cut itself are printed the lines:--
'_Time_ now at the last pours out much knavery,
The Devill holds down fast to hinder the discovery.'
[Illustration: CARICATURE, 1644.]
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