Book contents
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- List of Illustrations
- General Editor’s Preface
- Acknowledgements
- Chronology
- List of Abbreviations
- Introduction
- Crotchet Castle
- Appendix A Peacock’s Preface of 1837
- Appendix B Holograph Fragment of Chapter 4 (c. 1830)
- Appendix C Holograph Fragment of Chapter 5 (c. 1830)
- Appendix D Holograph Manuscript of ‘Touchandgo’ (Watermark 1827)
- Appendix E Holograph Manuscript of ‘Touchandgo’ (Watermark 1828)
- Appendix F Holograph Fragment of Chapter 16 (c. 1830)
- Appendix G ‘The Fate of a Broom: An Anticipation’ (1831, 1837)
- Note on the Text
- Emendations and Variants
- Ambiguous Line-End Hyphenations
- Explanatory Notes
- Select Bibliography
Appendix D - Holograph Manuscript of ‘Touchandgo’ (Watermark 1827)
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 30 June 2022
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- List of Illustrations
- General Editor’s Preface
- Acknowledgements
- Chronology
- List of Abbreviations
- Introduction
- Crotchet Castle
- Appendix A Peacock’s Preface of 1837
- Appendix B Holograph Fragment of Chapter 4 (c. 1830)
- Appendix C Holograph Fragment of Chapter 5 (c. 1830)
- Appendix D Holograph Manuscript of ‘Touchandgo’ (Watermark 1827)
- Appendix E Holograph Manuscript of ‘Touchandgo’ (Watermark 1828)
- Appendix F Holograph Fragment of Chapter 16 (c. 1830)
- Appendix G ‘The Fate of a Broom: An Anticipation’ (1831, 1837)
- Note on the Text
- Emendations and Variants
- Ambiguous Line-End Hyphenations
- Explanatory Notes
- Select Bibliography
Summary
HOLOGRAPH manuscript of ‘Touchandgo’, on three pages of a double quarto sheet of blue-greyWhatman paper, dated 1827 in watermark, tipped in at the back of a bound manuscript copy of Paper Money Lyrics. The poem is reprinted in Halliford , 7.242–4 (see also 7.496–7).
Location: Pforzheimer Collection, New York Public Library (TLP 18).
pray who can show
Hoho! hoho! and do you know
Whither has fled great Touchandgo?
He's gone off in a chaise and pair
And not a man on earth knows where.
In his own chariot off he ran
And there was not a turnpike man
His In his own chariot he has gone
Twixt London and the western channel
Could see his arms upon the pannel
He set off with the morning-dawn
Some say he took the road to Bristol
Equipped with sixpence and ^a pistol
Some say with plengold he’s was well apparelled
And blunderbusses double-barrelled
Others affirm he strove to pop
His brains out in my uncle's shop
And missing fire set off to Milford
With lots of sovereigns which he pilfered
Some say he beat about all Sunday
I’ th’ wind's eye off the isle of Lundy
Showered on them pails to [for of] gold like manna
And there was shipped off for Savannah.
Others aver he still doth dwell
Deep in a fishing vessel's well
And there chin-deep in Milford Haven
Takes cold and croaks like any raven.
They add
Some say his assignée's attorney
Has fl waited on Sir Richard Birnie
With a request that Mr Bishop
Him
The culprit from saidfishing smack may fish up.
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- Crotchet Castle , pp. 158 - 163Publisher: Cambridge University PressPrint publication year: 2016