Circumstances Alter Cases

1856

Wood engraving

Punch (7 June 1856): 81

Her M-j-s-y. “Well, My Lord — Then I suppose my Sunday band must be given up, too.”

Cant. “Oh de-ar no, Your Majesty! That's quite a different thing!”

Cant, of course, is the Archbishop of Canterbury

Related material

  • Sunday Music as Cant would have it
  • Hypocrisy denouncing music and Sunday Finery?

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