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George Cruikshank:Haec ego non credam Venusina digna lucerna?
haec ego non agitem? (Juvenal)
( Must I not deem these things worthy of the Venusian’s lamp? 
Must I not have my fling at them?)
Frontispiece to The modern Dunciad, London, 1814.
Via archive.org.

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George Cruikshank:
Haec ego non credam Venusina digna lucerna?
haec ego non agitem? (Juvenal)
( Must I not deem these things worthy of the Venusian’s lamp?
Must I not have my fling at them?)

Frontispiece to The modern Dunciad, London, 1814.
Via archive.org.

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