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Reform and common rights.
Description
English: After the title: 'Just Hatched'. On the right of the sheet a goose, in profile to the left, sits on many eggs, from three of which birds are appearing. Below: 'Reform, Common Rights, & Small Farms'. Facing the goose on the left of the sheet are three bust portraits, one below the other. Bird and men recite verses in numbered labels. The goose:


'1. Oh! England! England! hear the Voice,
That made the Romans once rejoice.
History says that cackling Geese,
Arous'd alarm secured the Peace.
Our King, God bless him, he delights,
To grant reform, and Common rights.'
Peel says:
'2. As Eggs we want for present use,
Let us at once cut up the Goose.
The D—e and I shall each have half,
For at Distress you know I laugh.
What's left we'll stew; our friends may try,
To get a finger in the Pie.'
The Duke, in profile to the right, adds:
'3. Distress! Distress! we mil not hear,
Or shall the people interfere,
On Common Rights we long have trod,
And ruled with the Iron Rod.
We'll kick the Goose unto old Scratch,
The Devil knows what She may hatch,
Whats to be done, Great Master, say?
At your command We'll cut away.'
William IV (flattered beyond recognition) says:
'4. This Warning Voice seems so sincere—
I am disposed to Hear! Hear! Hear!
For Britain's safety thousands bled,
And now their Children cry for bread.
So much distress, t'is but too true,
They shall have bread, meat & beer too,
Preserve the Goose, and free from harm,
Re-place her in a little farm.'
The goose concludes:
'5. The very thing most Gracious Sire,
Poor Man and Goose so much require.
From place, to place, we've long been toss'd,
No little Farms,—the Commons lost!
Throughout the Land all people sing,
Reform! Small Farms! God save the King.' October 1830?


Lithograph
Depicted people Associated with: Sir Robert Peel
Date 1830
date QS:P571,+1830-00-00T00:00:00Z/9
Medium paper
Dimensions
Height: 213 millimetres
Width: 317 millimetres
institution QS:P195,Q6373
Current location
Prints and Drawings
Accession number
1868,0808.9458
Notes

(Description and comment from M. Dorothy George, 'Catalogue of Political and Personal Satires in the British Museum', XI, 1954)

One of the very few prints on the enclosure of commons and the amalgama¬tion of farms, here associated with the demand for parliamentary Reform. The date is between William IV's accession and Wellington's resignation. For distress see No. 16032, &c.
Source/Photographer https://www.britishmuseum.org/collection/object/P_1868-0808-9458
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