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Plate 16: An Envious Whig

   
 
 


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 16

   
 

A

N envious whig, who's lost his place at court.
Quotes Magna Charta, and pleads warmly for't.

Let him get in, poor Magna is no more! —
Whigs pick our pockets, Tories make us poor!
So ins or outs are all the same t' a Briton,
Bep——t by tories, and by whigs be——t on.

   
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