The Cobler's wife sung by Mr. Matthews at the Theatre Royal, Drury Lane; in the grand operatical romance "The Forty Thieves". [graphic]
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Lewis Walpole Library > The Cobler's wife sung by Mr. Matthews at the Theatre Royal, Drury Lane; in the grand operatical romance "The Forty Thieves". [graphic]
"A cobbler flourishes a strap, while a little woman in Turkish trousers and jewelled turban runs away behind him. On the left is his shed and a bench with tools. Behind is a large quasi-oriental building, with minaret and dome. The verses relate how the cobbler thrashed his very small wife who ran away between his legs 'for ever'. They end:'"Twou'd break my heart, to lose my awl, To lose my wife's a trifle.'"--British Museum online catalogue