TABLE OF CONTENTS
PREFACE.
THE FRONTISPIECE.
CHAPTER I.
CHAPTER II.
CHAPTER III.
CHAPTER IV.
CHAPTER V.
CHAPTER VI.
CHAPTER VII.
CHAPTER VIII.
CHAPTER IX.
CHAPTER X.
CHAPTER XI.
CHAPTER XII.
CHAPTER XIII.
CHAPTER XIV.
CHAPTER XV.
Geoffery Gambado;
OR,
A SIMPLE REMEDY FOR
HYPOCHONDRIACISM
AND
MELANCHOLY SPLENETIC HUMOURS.
BY A HUMORIST PHYSICIAN.
Honi soit qui mal y pense.
PRINTED, FOR THE AUTHOR, BY DEAN & SON, LUDGATE HILL, LONDON.
Preface.
Some years ago, sixteen original sketches by Henry Bunbury, Esq. weregiven to the Author of this Book. This celebrated sketcher andcaricaturist was a gentleman well known in the county of Suffolk for hispublic and private virtues, as well as for his superior talents. He wasa lineal descendant of the Rev. Sir William Bunbury, whose baronetcy wascreated in 1681. Of a cheerful and lively temper, he sought to infusethe same spirit through all ranks of society. If we mistake not, his sonbecame Sir Henry Bunbury, and represented the county of Suffolk, as hisuncle, Sir Thomas Charles Bunbury, had done before him.
His descendants still occupy the mansion and estates in Suffolk, wherethey have been, and are still, the great benefactors to the poor, andthe parish of Great Barton near Bury St. Edmund's.
But we have to speak more particularly of Henry Bunbury, Esq. and histalents. To this day, his accurate delineations of the political andsocial customs of the age he lived in, and of the characters who cameunder his observation, are remarkable for their truthful force. It isvery seldom that men of high life and good education, possess theartistic power of graphic delineation: at least, we have but few amateurdelineators who can stand the test of the invidious sneers and jeers ofthose empty possessors of wealth and station, who consider themselvesdegraded even by the acquaintance of an artist, a poet, or a literarycharacter. Now, if a man is not a degraded man, but lives himself afterthe law of God, he need never mind the scoffs or ridicule of any man;but may say, as Henry Bunbury did to those who ridiculedhim,—"Evil be to him who evil thinks."
In the Sketc