<oai_dc:dc xmlns:oai_dc="http://www.openarchives.org/OAI/2.0/oai_dc/" xmlns:dc="http://purl.org/dc/elements/1.1/" xmlns:xsi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema-instance" xsi:schemaLocation="http://www.openarchives.org/OAI/2.0/oai_dc/ http://www.openarchives.org/OAI/2.0/oai_dc.xsd"><dc:title>How I love to laugh, or, The yawner sung by Mr. Grimaldi in Harlequin and the Water Kelpe, at Sadler's Wells. [graphic]</dc:title><dc:date>[8 January 1807]</dc:date><dc:language>eng</dc:language><dc:description>"A well-dressed man kneels on the ground, yawning; his arm is round the waist of a young woman, who pushes him away. The neat, plain room has a French window with a small iron balcony. The verses relate the mishaps of the singer, owing to inapt yawns: in his patron's face, on the verge of an appointment, when about to kiss the lady he hoped to marry (illustrated), and (the worst) while being shaved."--British Museum online catalogue</dc:description><dc:description>Title engraved below image.</dc:description><dc:description>Sheet trimmed within plate mark.</dc:description><dc:description>Plate numbered '454' in lower right corner.</dc:description><dc:description>From the Laurie &amp; Whittle series of Drolls.</dc:description><dc:description>Other prints in the Laurie &amp; Whittle series of Drolls were executed either by Isaac Cruikshank or Richard Newton.</dc:description><dc:description>Three numbered stanzas below title: How I love to laugh! Never was a weeper ...</dc:description></oai_dc:dc>