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Plate 6: The Dentist

   
 
 


Publish'd as the Act Directs, June 1773

7 3/4"w x 5"h

               
   
 

From "The EXPLANATION OF THE PLATES in the Book of Heads entitled
HUMAN PASSIONS DELINEATED": PLATE 6

   
 

Continued from Plate 5

   

H

E miss'd at first, but try'd again,
Then clap'd his foot o'th' chin ;

He pull'd — the patient roar'd with pain,
   And hideously did grin.

But lo! — capricious fortune frown'd,
   And broke the clewkin string,
And threw him backwards on the ground,
   His head made floor to ring.

Continued on Plate 7

   
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