A companion print to BMSat 6954. Design in a circle. Mrs. Fitzherbert sits on a settee; the Prince of Wales kneels at her feet, holding her left hand, his right hand on his breast; they face each other in profile, her expression calculating, his artless. She wears a very large hat trimmed with three feathers; in her right hand is a paper inscribed, 'Articles of Capitulation 8,000 Per An. A Duchess in my own right. The mockery of Marriage by a Priest and a Parson'. The words are followed by a cross and a rosary. Behind her, on the back of the settee, sits an owl, emblem of wisdom. Above the Prince's head, within a frame, as if in a picture, are a braying ass's head, a fool's cap, and a birch-rod. Outside the circle, in the corners of the plate, are four inscriptions:
<p><br><br>[1]   "She's wholly your's. My heart's so full of joy 
<br>"That I shall do some wild extravagance 
<br>"Of love in publick, and the foolish world, 
<br>"Which knows not tenderness, will think me mad."
<br><br>[2]   "Go! whither? go from all that's excellent! 
<br>"Faith, honour, virtue, all good things, forbid 
<br>"That I should go from her on whom my love is set 
<br>"Above the price of kingdoms.  Give, ye gods! 
<br>"Give to your boy, your Caesar, 
<br>"This rattle of a globe to play withal, 
<br>"This gewgaw world, and put him cheaply off; 
<br>'I'll not be pleas'd with less than"------
<br><br>[3] The Governess of the Fort, and Garrison of Fitzhubbub ; after a political resistance of time prpper, surrenders to the besieger; as by the articles of capitulation.
<br><br>[4]   It would be sin,
<br>That I------,
<br>Should want a cap and rod.
<br>Yet no one fears,
<br>But with long ears,
<br>He will be crowned a God.  1 May 1786
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<br>Hand-coloured etching
1786<div style="display: none;">date QS:P571,+1786-00-00T00:00:00Z/9</div>
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