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Plate 35: The Adjutant and the General
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 35
ADJUTANT.
T
HE Prince commands that you bring up the horse.
GENERAL.
Ah Lord, what mean you by this strange discourse !
The horse must aid the foot, and them preserve ;
But I think best the horse lie in reserve : For should a ball but graze this skin of mine, As l'm all heart, I must my soul resign.