NAPOLEON - 2 broadsides from 1803.

NAPOLEON (2). Crocodile's tears: or, Bonaparte's lamentation. A new song. Tune: Bow, wow, wow. London, J. Wallis, printed by J. Crowder and E. Hemsted, (1803).
Plate: 193 x 217mm; sheet: 445 x 285 mm; etching with letterpress text below; wide margined copy. Watermarked paper.

BM Satires 10119.
A rare broadside. Lamenting Napoleon sits on a rock, shedding large cocodile tears.

First Line:
By gar, this Johnny-Bull be a very cunning elf, sir...

TOGETHER WITH:

The Berkshire Farmer's thoughts on invasion. A Song. Tune --- Liberty Hall.
London, printed for J. Wallis Ludgate Street, Price 1d. or 8d. per Dozen. Where may be had, a Collection of all the loyal Papers that have been published. Printed for J. Wallis, Ludgate street... by J. Crowder and E. Hemsted, Warwick Square(1803).
Broadside untrimmed as issued, c. 440x270 mm. 2 copies.

First lines:
SO ! Bonaparte's coming, as folks ſeem to ſay,
(But I hope to have time to get in my hay.)
And while he's caballing, and making a parley,
Perhaps I ſhall houſe all my wheat and my barley.
Fal lal de ral, &c.

Napoleonic Wars, 1800-1815, French invasion scares.