<i>Title:</i> The  friend of humanity and the knife-grinder,-scene. The borough, in imitation of Mr. Southey's sapphics,-Vide. Anti-Jacobin, p. 15
<p><i>Abstract:</i> <a href="//commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/George_Tierney" title="George Tierney">George Tierney</a> and a knife-grinder pushing his wheelbarrow in front of an ale-house.
<i>Physical description:</i> 1 print : engraving, color.
<i>Notes:</i> Forms part of : British Cartoon  Prints Collection (Library of Congress).<br>
Text:<br>
Friend of Hum.<br>
“Needy Knife-grinder! wither are you going?<br>
“Rough is the road, your Wheel is out of order. <br>
“Bleak blows the blast: – your hat has got a hole in’t, <br>				
So have your Breeches! <br>
“Weary Knife-grinder! little think the proud ones.<br> 
Who in their Coaches roll along the turnpike- <br>
-road, what hard work ‘tis crying all day “Knives <br>
“and Scissors to grind O !” <br>
“Tell me, Knife-grinder, how came you to grind knives? <br>
Did some rich man tyrannically use you? <br>
Was it the Squire? or Parson of the Parish?<br> 						
Or the Attorney? <br>
Was it the Squire for killing of his Game? or<br> 	
Covetous Parson for his Tythes distraining?<br> 	
Or roguish Lawyer made you lose your little<br> 						
All in a law-suit?<br> 
“(Have you not read the Rights of Man, by Tom Paine?)<br> 	
Drops of compassion tremble of my eye-lids,<br>
Ready to fall, as soon as you have told your<br> 						
Pitiful story”<br></p><p>Knife-grinder.<br>
“Story! God bless you! I have none to tell, Sir,<br> 			
Only last night a-drinking at the Chequers,<br> 			
This poor old Hat and Breeches, as you see,were 	<br>							
torn in a scuffle 	<br>		
“Constables came up for to take me into<br> 			
Custody: they took me before the Justice:<br> 			
Justice Oldmixon put me in the Parish-<br> 							
-Stocks for a Vagrant. <br>		
I should be glad to drink your Honour’s health in <br>		
A Pot of Beer if you would give me Sixpence;<br> 			
But for my part, I never love to meddle 	<br>						
With Polities, Sir.<br></p><p>”  Friend of Hum.<br>	
“I give thee Sixpence! I will see thee damned first.<br> 			
Wretch. whom no sense of wrongs can muse to ven- 	<br>									
-geance 	<br>		
Sordid, unfeeling, reprobate, degraded 	<br>
Spiritless outcast!<br></p><p>  (Kicks the Knife-grinder, overturns his Whell, and exit in<br> 
 a transport of republican enthusiasm and universal 	<br></p>
philanthropy)
British Cartoon Prints Collection
1797
<p>Library of Congress
</p>
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