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Front cover of The Great Panjandrum Himself (page 475 of The Complete Collection of PICTURES and SONGS)
The Great Panjandrum Himself
By Samuel Foote.
Illustrated by Randolf Caldecott.
With a preface by Austin Dobson.
Engraved and Printed by Edmund Evans.
The Complete Collection of Pictures & Songs, 500 pages, 37.4×28.6cm, pp. 475-500.
London: George Routledge and Sons, Limited, 1887 (1885).
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Introduction

This nonsense verse was written by the English actor/playwright Samuel Foote (1720-1777) to test the actor Macklin who boasted that he could memorize anything that he had heard only once. The eighteen lines of unrelated contents and matters form a sequence of complete nonsense. For a time, “Panjandrum” became a synonym for the arrogant and boastful. Caldecott dressed Panjandrum pompously in a headmaster’s cap and gown.
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(♪) THE GREAT PANJANDRUM HIMSELF.
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THE GREAT PANJANDRUM HIMSELF.
“The Great Panjandrum Himself”
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(♪) So she went into the garden to cut a cabbage-leaf
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(♪) to make an apple-pie;
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(♪) and at the same time a great she-bear, coming down the street, pops its head into the shop.
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(♪) What! no soap? So he died,
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(♪) and she very imprudently married the Barber:
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and there were present the Picninnies, and the Joblillies, (♪)
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(♪) and the Garyulies,
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and the great Panjandrum himself, with the little round button at top; (♪)
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and they all fell to playing the game of catch-as-catch-can, till the gunpowder ran out at the heels of their boots. (♪)
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