Excerpt from A Bibliographical Catalogue of Books Privately Printed, Vol. 2: Including Those of Bannatyne, Maitland and Roxburghe Clubs, and of the Private Presses at Darlington, Auchinleck, Lee Priory, Newcastle, Middle Hill, and Strawberry Hill
The Dismal lamentations of a monopolist of game, sometime since mournfully sung on the Banks of the Don; at present applied by Christopher Fungus, Esq., to Himself and his Brother, Nimrod Fungus, Esq.; and bellowed out with greater pathos on the banks of the Tees. To the tune of Babes in the Wood.
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