Chapter I: Preface

This prolonged work is, at length, brought to a close.--It has grown to this size, under rare and continuing marks of public favour; while the same mode of Composition has been employed in the last, as in the former Volumes. They are all equally indebted to MR. ROWLANDSON'S talents.

It may, perhaps, be considered as presumption in me, and at my age, to sport even with my own Dowdy Muse, but, from the extensive patronage which DOCTOR SYNTAX has received, it may be presumed that, more or less, he has continued to amuse: And I, surely, have no reason to be dissatisfied, when Time points at my eightieth Year, that I can still afford some pleasure to those who are disposed to be pleased.

The AUTHOR.

_May 1, 1821._

LIST OF THE PLATES

Journey to London _To face the Title_
In search of Service _To face p._ 13
Relating his History to Sir Jeffery " 17
At Oxford " 42
Conflict with Lawyer Gripe-all " 44
With the Sheep-Shearers " 59
Assisting a Traveller " 63
In the Sports of the Kitchen " 75
In the Service of Sir Jeffery Gourmand " 81
With a Quack Doctor " 139
With a Spendthrift " 150
Attending on a Sporting Finale " 162
In the Service of a Miser " 174
With the Money Lenders " 179
Officiating at a Gaming Table " 180
With a Portrait Painter " 188
Gives a Grand Party " 201
Interrupts a Tête à Tête " 203
Committed with a riotous Dancing Party
to the Watch-House " 212
Engaged with Jovial Friends,
or who sings best " 214
The Party breaking up and
QUÆ GENUS breaking down " 220
Turned out of a House which
he mistakes for his own " 222
With Creditors " 229
Discovers his Father " 248

THE HISTORY

OF

JOHNNY QUÆ GENUS

OR

The Foundling of Doctor Syntax