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Plate 28: Quoth Hal to Dick
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 28
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UOTH Hal to Dick, I know it's true Thou courted Doll, my wife;
Nay, fame doth whisper, k——d her too, Which thought's the plague of life.
That fame, quo' Dick's a lying bitch, Whom none but fools will hear: But knaves, quo' Hal, give th' courtiers itch, For which I wring thy ear.