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Lettered above image, upper center: "CRUELTY IN PERFECTION."; inside image, lower center: "Here lieth | the Body"; inside image, lower left: "Dear Tommy | My Mistress has been | the best of Women to me, and my | Conscience flies in my face as | often as I think of wronging her, | yet I am resolv'd to venture Body | & Soul to do as you would have me | so don't fail to meet me as you | said you would. For I shall | bring along with me all the | things I can lay my hands on, | so no more at present | but I remain yours till | Death, Ann Gill."; lower left: "To Thos. Nero | at P-"; inside image, lower center: "A. G. | Common | Prayer | GOD's | Revenge | against | Murder"; below image, lower left: "Price 1 s."; below image, lower left: "To lawless Love when once betray'd, | Soon Crime to Crime Succeeds: | At length beguil'd to Theft, the Maid | By her Beguiler bleeds."; lower center: "Yet learn, seducing Man! nor Night, | With all its sable Cloud, | Can screen the guilty Deed from Sight; | Foul Murder cries aloud."; lower right: "The gaping Wounds, and bloodstain'd Steel, | Now shock his trembling Soul: | But Oh! what Pangs his Breast must feel, | When Death his Knell shall toll."; lower center: "Published according to Act of Parliament Feb.1.1751"; lower right: "Design'd by W.Hogarth."