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Title: Great Gobble Gobble Gobble, and Twit Twittle Twit, or Law, versus Common Sense: Being a Twitting Report of Successive Attacks on a Tom Tit, His Stout Defenses & Final Victory. A New Song, with Original Music by Lay Logic Esquire. Student in the Law of Libel Artist: George Cruikshank Author: [William Hone] Description: Song sheet. 4 pages. 37 cm. Date: 1817 Citations: Cohn 363. George 12899 Commentary: Following his acquittal, Hone's song exalts free speech and mocks the prosecutors at his libel trials of Dec. 1817. In the hand colored frontispiece, Cruikshank depicts Hone as a twittering tom tit teasing the others.
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