Tim Bobbin Gallery: Plate 9: The Country Bumpkins

Bobbin Galleries:

Plate 9: The Country Bumpkins

Publish'd as the Act Directs, June 1773

7 3/4"w x 5"h

From "The EXPLANATION OF THE PLATES in the Book of Heads entitled
HUMAN PASSIONS DELINEATED": Plate 9

HREE country bumpkins chanc'd to meet,
Whose phizzes look'd like vizzards ;

The first, the second thus did greet,
Thy face is like some wizzard's.

The ugliest of the ugliest sort
Thou art, or I'm mistaken ;

Sure nature made thee all for sport,
Or sight hath me forsaken.

2d. But thou'rt all beauty in thy looks,
And every feature's pleasing ;
This I would swear on holy books,
But for my sin increasing.

For sure thy nose, thy mouth, thy eye,
Would frighten any mortal:
Pluto and Jove will throw thee by,
On ent'ring grim death's portal.

3d. The third and ugliest of the three,
Cry'd, Lord! — how you're conceited!
I cannot stand a mute and see
Two neighbouring friends thus cheated.

I wonder why such mortals should
About their beauty fall out!
We're I as ugly I ne'er would
From my poor cottage crawl out.

For with an ax and alder tree,
I'd make two men as handsome
Or live a slave in Tripoly,
And never sue for ransom.