John Gay’s Fable 40: The Two Monkeys
They are shocked by their reception on attending Southwark fair: Men laugh at apes, they men contemn; / For what are we, but Apes to them?
Great tunes, great doggerel, small simians
They are shocked by their reception on attending Southwark fair: Men laugh at apes, they men contemn; / For what are we, but Apes to them?
Another abundance of redundance. Featuring Russian, German and Italian puppetry, organ-grinding, and other nonsense.