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AWM.735.008
21-28 Jan 1735:21 (787)
They write from Paris, that poor Punchinello in the puppet
shew at S. Laurence's fair had been seized and committed,
for unadvisedly speaking of the battle of Parma, in a manner
that might be taken for a critique upon the Marshal de
Coigny. The passage was comical enough. Punch appeared
upon the stage in a very great heat, with a lantern in his
hand, to examine whether he had gained the victory in a
great battle he had fought. After he had looked all over
the field of battle, he sent for his secretary to write to
court. The spectators observed the raillery, and laughed at
the expense of the General concerning whom they are so full
of doubt, as to say, never general made so little use of so
fair an opportunity.
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