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Lettered above image, upper right: "5"; inside image, lower right: "W. Hogarth Inv:t et Sculp"; 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 satsfy'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 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."