<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>Heigho! says Thimble written by G. Colman, Esq. and sung with unbounded applause by Mr. Liston in the farce called "Killing no murder!" at the Theatre Royal, Haymarket. [graphic]</dc:title><dc:date>[16 September 1809]</dc:date><dc:language>eng</dc:language><dc:description>"Scene in a London churchyard, lit by a waning moon. An old woman, wife of Thimble, a tailor, wearing a hooded shroud, emerges from a grave beside a spade, pickaxe, skulls, &amp;c. She threatens with two bones the terror-struck sexton who sits on the ground. He had come 'To saw off her finger, and steal the ring'. She frightens him away. The refrain:  'With her roley, poley, gammon, and spinnage  Heigho! says Thimble.'"--British Museum online catalogue</dc:description><dc:description>Caption title from letterpress text printed below image (plate mark 18.2 x 22.9 cm).</dc:description><dc:description>"Tune-Heigho! says Rowley."</dc:description><dc:description>Two columns of verse in letterpress below title: Thimble's scolding wife lay dead ; -Heigho! says Thimble ...</dc:description><dc:description>Sheet trimmed to within thread margin of plate mark on two sides.</dc:description><dc:description>Plate numbered '510' in upper left corner.</dc:description></oai_dc:dc>