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Inscribed on verso in graphite, center: "/9"; center right: "T. COOK"

Lettered below image, lower left: "Design'd by W. Hogarth."; lower right: "Engrav'd by T. Cook"; lower center: "HUDIBRAS, | vanquish'd by | TRUSSA. | Mean while the other Champion yerst | In hurry of the Fight disperst, | Arriv'd, when Trussa won the Day, | To share i' th' Honour and the Prey | And out of Hudibras his Hide, | With Vengeance to be satisfy'd; | But Trussa thrust her self between, | And striding o'er his back agen, | She brandish'd o'er her head his Sword, | And vow'd they should not break her word; | Sh' had giv'n him Quarter, and her Blood | Or theirs should make that Quarter good. | In dungeon deep Crowdero cast, | By Hudibras, as yet lay fast; | Him she resolv'd that Hudibras | Should ransom, and supply his place, | This stopt their Fury, and the Basting | Which towards Hudibras was hasting. | They thought it was but just and right, | That what she had atchiev'd in fight | She should dispose of how she pleas'd: | Crowdero ought to be releas'd: | Him they release from Durance base, | Restor'd t' his Fiddle, and his Case."