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Illustrated song sheet about a smooth-talking Irish con man who “lives like a lord, and has nothing to pay.” The song recounts how he dresses the part of a wealthy gentleman and invents a story about being from a wealthy family, managing to mooch off of unsuspecting members of the upper class and running up tabs with various merchants on London’s fashionable Bond Street. Eventually, as the illustration shows, his creditors catch on to his trickery, ending his spree. The song by 18th century British playwright George Saville Carey is printed below the image; see full text below.<\/p>\n

Robert Laurie (1755-1836) and James Whittle (1757-1818) were London map, chart and printsellers active from 1794 to 1812 trading variously as Laurie and Whittle or Whittle and Laurie.\u00a0Laurie began his career as a fine mezzotint engraver and exhibited at the Society of Artists from 1770 to 1776.\u00a0With Whittle, they took over the large map and print business of Robert Sayer.\u00a0Laurie & Whittle published many atlases and maps and products used for jigsaw puzzles. Robert’s son, Richard Holmes Laurie, succeeded him upon his retirement in 1812, and after Whittle’s death in 1818 carried on the business alone until at least 1840.\u00a0The firm still exists as Imray, Laurie, Norie and Wilson Ltd., which has long specialized in marine charts.<\/p>\n

A Bond-Street Lounger; or, A Man with Two Suits to His Back<\/strong>
\nWritten by George Saville Carey<\/em>1
\nSino of a flashy Hibernian blade,
\nAltho’ non commission’d yet sports a cockade;
\nwho lives by his wits, tho’ his stock is but small,
\nWho boasts of his means, which are nothing at all.CHORUS:
\nSing, oh! for the lad that can bodder away,
\nThat lives like a lord, and has nothing to pay;
\nYet sure you must call him a man of good sense,
\nWho lives all his days at another’s expence.2
\nYet were you to see how he struts in his walk,
\nHow sweetly he’ll blarney his friends in his talk;
\nHis father’s great park is fill’d full of fine deer,
\nWith a mighty estate of Five Tousand (sic) a year.<\/p>\n

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\nYou’d swear on his tongue he’d a magical spell,
\nHe winds round a good English tradesman so well;
\nThe Shoemaker, Hatter, and Taylor he’ll trick,
\nAnd thus make a figure by running a tick.<\/p>\n

4
\nSt. James’s and Bond-street, he struts up and down,
\nIs call’d by the ladies, a man of the town;
\nHis heart is of adamant, face is of brass,
\nAnd thus for a man of high fashion will pass.<\/p>\n

5
\nSometimes you will see this Hibernian spark,
\nOn cock-horse equipp’d in the ring in Hyde-Park;
\nWhat matter who pays for the corn, or the hay,
\nSo plausible Paddy can dash it away.<\/p>\n

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\nOne day having only One Suit to his back,
\nDame Fortune presented him Two in a crack;
\nA new Suit of clothes, and a Low-Suit appear,
\nWhich soon put an end to poor Paddy’s career!<\/p>\n

CHORUS.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

George Saville Carey was a British poet and dramatist who also wrote musical entertainments. He was the son of Henry Carey, who claimed to be an illegitimate son of the British lord George Savile, though it is now thought he may have been an illegitimate grandson.<\/p>\n

Condition: Generally very good with the usual light toning, wear, soiling, soft creases. Few short marginal tears, professionally restored.<\/p>\n

References:<\/p>\n

“Henry Carey.” Encyclop\u00e6dia Britannica<\/em>. 2007. Online at Britannica Concise Encyclopedia.<\/em>\u00a011 September 2007. http:\/\/concise.britannica.com\/ebc\/article-9020316\/Henry-Carey (11 September 2007).<\/p>\n

Maxted, Ian. “The London book trades 1775-1800: a preliminary checklist of members.” Exeter Working Papers in British Book Trade History. U.K.: Devon Library and Information Services. <\/em>2001. http:\/\/www.devon.gov.uk\/library\/locstudy\/bookhist\/lonl.html and http:\/\/www.devon.gov.uk\/library\/locstudy\/bookhist\/lonw.html (18 March 2002).<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

George Saville Carey (1743\u20131807) (author)
\nA Bond-Street Lounger; or, A Man with Two Suits to His Back<\/strong>
\nLaurie & Whittle, 53 Fleet Street, London: June 24, 1800
\nBlack-and-white copperplate engraving
\n15.75 x 10 inches, sheet
\n$100<\/p>\n

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