Lord North looks through his eye glass at a block and axe, in the foreground, against which lies a book inscribed "The Book of Fate". The stilts, which replace North's legs from the knees downwards, are inscribed (l.) "Lust of Pow'r", "Fraud", "Hypocrisy", and (r.) "Arbitrary Power", "Tyranny"; they are breaking in pieces, under the blows of Time (l.) who raises his scythe to smite. Truth (r.) raises her mirror in her right. hand, pointing with her left. at the block and axe. Bute, who holds North's eye-glass ribbon as if driving him by a rein, holds up his hands in horror at the sight, and has dropped from his left hand a sword inscribed "Military Law". From his pocket hangs a label, "Plan to Enslave K-----g L------ds, &amp; C------ns". In the upper right. corner of the print the head (in profile to the left.) and shoulders of the king appear from behind dark clouds and are surrounded by a glory of rays. c. 1773?
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1773<div style="display: none;">date QS:P571,+1773-00-00T00:00:00Z/9</div>
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