Shepherds, I have lost my waist! Have you seen my body?... mb-height 7002 Pringle House

Pringle House

Initial letter 'L'

and designed by Gioacchino Colombo

Alberich makes the Nibelung dwarves bring his treasures to the cave so he can survey his booty

Shepherds, I have lost my waist! Have you seen my body?... mb-height 7002 Pringle House'Shepherds, I have lost my waist! Have you seen my body? Sacrificed to modern taste, I'm quite a hoddy doddy!'', 1795. A satire on the unflattering fashions of the day. A hoddy doddy meant all arse and no body; a short clumsy person. Illustration from Social Caricature in the Eighteenth Century With over two hundred illustrations by George Paston [pseudonym of Emily Morse Symonds], (London, 1905).