A good-looking young man, in profile to the right, raises a riding-whip to strike a small, lean, and ugly barrister wearing a voluminous gown (right) who flees from him, turning his head in profile to say : "Christ Jasus, man, what are you at ? I only kiss'd her in joke, only in joke upon my conscience!" His assailant says "Sure I'll give you the satisfaction of a Gentleman when I'm done, my dear! What the devil would you have more! By Jasus I'll teach you to kiss my Wife without my leave!   You'll be for stroke - her next to be sure; but I'll put some capital strokes upon your back first with a good horsewhip, my little Ram of the Law!" Behind (left) a man with a raised club stops the approach of a group of men who advance angrily with clenched fists; he says "Fair play, by the holy! no breaking in ye spalpeens!" Two of the crowd say, "Fair play do you call it Measter - by my soul I think it is as foul play as ever I saw", and "O tunder o nouns our little Orator will be cut in three halves!" July 1791
<br>Etching with hand-colouring
1791<div style="display: none;">date QS:P571,+1791-00-00T00:00:00Z/9</div>
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