The filthy bag so green O : a mock-Italian-serio-comic-dramatic song[approximately 1820]engTitle from item.Letterpress text, printed in two columns; partly in verse.Directly beneath title are eighteen quoted lines from Shakespeare's Henry VIII, beginning: "Queen.-- I do believe, induced by potent circumstances ..."Verses to the song are printed in the left column beneath Shakespeare quote; they begin: In a House of Fears, hard by, Lord! how the Italians lie! ...In the right column beneath Shakespeare quote are the details of a mock auction; the text begins: To roguish lawyers, false swearers, common informers ... To be sold by auction, without reserve,-- by Mr. Milan Commission, at the House of Fears ... Lot 1. A quantity of pure consciences ...With a woodcut illustration at head depicting a John Bull figure dumping out the contents of a green bag, with tiny figures (members of the Milan Commission or witnesses against the Queen?) tumbling to the ground. He says: "Halu boy! here's a royal mess of no mi ricordo for you." A dog looks aggressively at the tiny figures, its speech bubble reading: "No, no. I'm a queen's boy-- send them to hell to make soup for her enemies." Four common folk watch the scene from the right, a man commenting to his wife: "Damn me Poll, that's just what I said they'd come to." Beneath the image is the quote: "We say the King is wise and virtuous!!!" - Shakespeare."Price three pence."