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VOL. I
Second Edition
THE SNOB.
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Tityre, tu patule recubans sub tegmine fagi
Sylvestrem?   VIRGIL.
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No.7 & THURSDAY, MAY 21, 1829 Price 2 1\2d.
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Article I. _ THE VETERAN AERONAUT or Mr. Green.
A dramatic sketch.
"Audax omnia perpeti". - HOR.
DRAMATIS PERSONE.
 The Vetearn aeronaut.........Mr. GREEN.
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The pony..........An Amature.
The Living Animal...The Chimaera.
The Inflater.......- Deck, Esq.
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The Balloons... An Old Hand, being his 115th appearance on any stage.
The Parachute.....An Eminent Upholsterer.
The Fiddler.....The Snob !!!
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Constables, Spectators, Gas-pipes, &c., by the Town and Gown.
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SCENE- [[italics]] A spacious and commodious encloser in Barnwell, belonging to Mr. Warwicker, the well-known residence of the late George Bullen, Esq.
Time - FIVE O'CLOCK.
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[[italics]] Mr. Green appears in a pea-green jacket, yellow smalls, pumps, and a white hat. At the same moment Mr. Deck appears, elegantly dressed in a new blue coat, and nankeen trousers; he applies himself to the pipes.
The Balloon is no sooner observed to begin to fill, than the Fiddler enters, and stations himself on a tub at the right of the ring. Upon this Mr. Green comes forward, and taking off his white hat begins the

RECITATIVE.

O Ladies and Gentlemen list to me now,
While Ducky* inflates the balloon, [[italics right margin]]*looking tearfully on Deck, Esq.
I'll sing hat i'ii do when I make my last bow-
-Come, you Fiddler,*do strike up the tune. [[italics right margin]]*looking fearfully at the Fiddler.

[[italics]] The Fiddler violently resigns his bow, and therewith strikes up a beautiful Air, composed for the occasion. Mr. Green, after taking several turns round the area, first at a walk, then at a trot, next at a hand-canter, and lastly at a 
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To Charles Green Aeronaut
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Another Icarus is seen!
Th' intrepid, daring, fearless GREEN;
Behold him in the Air!
Soaring in his huge Balloon:
One day, perhaps he'll reach the Moon
And make her people stare.
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Success attend him in his flight,
On some new world, one day, he'll light
And be a wonder there;
The undaunted Aeronaut, no doubt,
Will bring the mighty scheme about
And reign the Prince of Air!
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How puny to his eyes must seem
The worlds of Man beneath I deem,
Whilst mounted in the Air;
The highest palaces that are
Shrink to a point beneath his Car;
And Men like Mites appear.

Copied by William Upcott
Aug 17, 1840.
102 Upper Street, Islington.
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Ambition's highest flights how low,
Compard with those of GREEN we know;
How mean is every plan
Of greatest Ministers of State;
They ne'er can rise at such a rate,
Nor equal such a man.
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He must have had a strong Cuirasse
Of triple steel or double brass,
Who tempted first the Main;
Thus Roman Horace wrote I mean
But had he known our English GREEN,
Oh! what had been his strain!
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Fearless aloft the aeronaut,
By the winds of Heaven caught,
Behold him sail along;
To soar in my way too, I mean,
And celebrate the name GREEN,
The subject of my Song-

T.S.H
Portsea 22 July,1829
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