Cassius
published by Darly & Edwards at the Acorn in the Strand
1756
Lewis Walpole Library, Yale University Library, 756.09.30.02.2
Plate from A Political and Satyrical History of the Years 1756 and 1757. London: Printed for E. Morris, [1757].
Lyttelton's speech:
I am not fat, no
sleak-headed Sleeper
I have a lean and
Hungry look Much
do I think, but hold
thee Cassius times
there were—hush no
more of that. what plea-
sures now can pall'd
Ambition give, or the
delightful Sence
of well-Earn'd
praise to thee so
justly due.
O fatal Stroke.
The lines of verse below the image read:
O prithee Strive thy Grov'ling mind to raise,
Above the Bounds of thy Imperfect state.
Would'st tread ye hoofbeat path, unto the Ever open gate
There wilt thou meet rewards, due only to Thy praise
That praise which thou hast Earn'd, so just, so well,
No more.—my Muse forbids me more to tell.
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