Broadside satirising Lord Bute and Dr John Hill at the time of  Bute's resignation on 9 April 1763. Bute, sick in bed with the devil gloating at his side, addresses Hill in a paraphrase of Macbeth addressing the doctor in Act 5, Scene 3, "Canst Thou not minisiter to a Mind diseas'd .....". The voice of the king (who is not shown) appears in a speech balloon at the right, "The Half of my Kingdom to save his Precious Life!". Hill offers "Water Dock", according to Hawkins a cure for scurvy; in his pocket is "Bardana" for gout, and on a table among other nostrums "Balsam of Hone[y]". Verses beneath in the form of a conversation between the two men make clear that Bute's complaint is mental rather than physical; he begs to know how his resignation has been received and is alarmed to learn that "the Nation" has realised that his "Resigning is all a mere Sham". Etched image with letterpress title and dialogue verses in two columns, and with one vertical and one horizontal segment of type ornament. ([London], Sumpter: [1763])
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