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Inscribed on verso in graphite, lower right: "IR 784/431"

Lettered below image, lower center: "Hudibras, | vanquish'd by | Trulla"; lower center: "Mean while the other Champion, Yerst | In hurry of the Fight disperst, | Arriv'd, when Trulla won the Day, | To share i' th' Honour and the Prey, | And out of Hudibras his Hide, | With Vengeance to be satisfy'd: -- | But Trulla 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 the 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 this Fiddle, and his Case."; lower center: "London Printed for Robt. Sayer, Map & Printseller, at No. 53 in Fleet Street."