Heading to a printed black-bordered broadside. Fox, with a fox's head, lies full length on a table, his hands together like a recumbent figure on a tomb, as in BMSat 6470. One mourner stands at his head (left), another at his feet (right), each holding a handkerchief to his eyes. Round their flat hats and over their shoulders are mourning-scarves. The mourner at his head is identified in an old hand as Burke. Both are poorly characterized. Beneath the (printed) title is printed, 'Alias the Goose-Catcher! [cf. BMSat 5843] - alias Carlo-Khan! [cf. BMSat 6473]  - alias the Westminster Mountebank! - alias the Man of the People! - &amp;c. To which is added, a Devonshire Lamentation! and an Epitaph! by the Widow of the Murdered Man'.
<p><br>Beneath are verses in two columns: first, 'Soliloquy' (40 ll.), beginning,
<br><br>"The gloomy Crisis of my Fate draws near; 
<br>"And in Despight of all my puffing Friends, 
<br>"(Whose subtile Paragraphs, and well-fram'd Lies, 
<br>"Made Truth itself seems false, and Falshood true) 
<br>"My Fame Politic dies! . . .
<br><br>It ends,
<br><br>"But, Oh! the King would hear his Subjects Cries! 
<br>"And (Spite of all my Efforts to prevent it) 
<br>"Their Charters, Rights, and Liberties maintain'd!" 
<br><br>Having 'discharged the above tremendous Cataract of Oratory', Fox fell into a trance, as represented in the plate.  Cf. BMSat 6405. 
<br>In 'The Devonshire Lamentation' (18 ll.) the Duchess asks rhetorically: 
<br><br>"Did I the Tongue of Calumny defy, 
<br>And o'er the Bounds of Delicacy fly? 
<br>Forget my Sex's softness, to defend 
<br>The sinking Cause of my politic Friend; 
<br>And all for nought? -"
<br><br>In the 'Epitaph' (14 ll.) the widow mourns her 'butcher'd Husband' (killed in an election riot, cf. No. 6593).'  c. 8 April 1784
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<br>Etching with letterpress text
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<p>Print made by: J Barrow
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<dl><dd>Published by: E Rich</dd></dl></div>
1784<div style="display: none;">date QS:P571,+1784-00-00T00:00:00Z/9</div>
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