Colman’s comic verse tales first appeared as My Night-Gown and Slippers and were enlarged when his booksellers complained the book was too short. Here a knight who has killed a twenty-stone friar must hide the body before dawn, an elder brother gets his comeuppance, and the playful prefaces poke fun at publishers.
Bawdy, rollicking Georgian humour from a popular playwright of the Regency stage. Download the free EPUB.