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    Found among the Papers of the late Charles Lamb , [ Concluded from the Last Number . ]

    I shall now return to the hero of this extraordinary and high farcical Tragi-comedy . The various characters we have previously discussed , of however classical an interest in themselves , are all completely subservient to the development of the idiosyncrasy , or rather syncrasy , of the prime Villain of the drama . We shall now , therefore , treat of them all under this head—if head indeed we may be allowed to designate that tall cone of matted hair and impudence .

    The personal appearance of Mr Punch is singularly characteristic of the inward fellow . His features are all large , extravagant , preposterous , and mask-like ; the expression , a rich mixture of the Italian bravo and buffoon . The Knave of Clubs is nothing to it . There is something heraldic in his outrageous nonconformity to any known living being . He is the

    dwarfabortion of a deformed giant . His strength of physical endurance , awkwardness , and mistaken estimate of his powers , all go to prove this . As the mystical and no less gifted artist Blake made a microscopic drawing of a flea , and thereuhto a calculation of what would be its powers of mischief if it were as big as a horse , so we may all bless our stars that Punch , who seems of the family of Brobdignags , was thus thwarted of

    his germinant proportions . ( Possibly had not this been the case , his character might have been different , but regarding him as he is , we should be sorry to see Nature try the experiment . ) He always expects to carry everything by a coup-demain , as if he had to deal with mere shrimps , and though he invariably conquers in the end , it is chiefly by dint of being able to take more than his antagonist has strength to

    administer . Then comes his turn , and he uses it with most destructive remorselessness . His dress is always a mixture of red and yellow , and the tints of his inflamed visage harmonize with the former , and seem to exude from the whole man . Of his most characteristic voice what words can convey an idea that shall at all do justice to its rascally quality , —its shrill , abrupt , inter- ; mittent fits of cracked crowing over all possible arrangements of society , and over all the decencies of our common nature !

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    Analytical Disquisition on Punch and Judy . 1 IS

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  • Monthly Repository (1806-1838) and Unitarian Chronicle (1832-1833), Feb. 1, 1837, page 113, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/mruc/issues/vm2-ncseproduct1828/page/66/