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As it is or the wind changed (BM 1868,0808.4834)

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As it is or the wind changed (BM 1868,0808.4834)

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A companion print to BMSat 5963. Lord North fleeing from left to right. before a number of pursuing foxes, his hands held up in alarm. He looks over his shoulder at the foxes with an expression of terror saying, "Take it, take it, I resign I'm out I'm out". This is addressed to the foremost fox (evidently Charles Fox), who has seized the end of North's garter ribbon in his mouth and is pulling it off. Labels in the mouths of the three foxes who come next after their leader are inscribed: "Where's your Puffing Majority now; You might have kept your breath to have cool'd your porridge; Let the boisterous Gentleman go for I have piss't his fire out & he cannot Longer do any Mischief"; this animal is urinating on a smoking torch which lies on the ground. April 1782
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