BROADSIDE. [GEORGE III, Mock epitaph on]. E P I T A P H. INDIGNANT Reader, Whoever thou art, more especially an AMERICAN, Lift up thine eyes, be thankful, rejoice, and behold!...The residuum and political remnant of George the III. Button-maker; An enemy to liberty, and ungrateful, inexorable TYRANT, Of inglorious memory.....[three columns text, concluding:] May the Light Above, far more resplendant than the ashes of his favourite gunpowder, GRANT That his deeds be recorded...and that like NEBUCHADNEZZAR I. his hairs may grow as eagles feathers, his nails like birds claws, and instead of grass his food be thistles, to graze upon, not seven only but seventy times seven years, thrice told, on the summit of the highest mountain in North Britain, but never like him to reign again [inverted crown]. Philadelphia: Printed by F. Bailey 1782. Large folio, 408 x 315mm. (16 x 12 3/8 in.), minor staining and some abrasion at folds (not affecting text), backed with coarse linen, bold inscription at top margin "For Miss Rebecca Treat at Yorktown from Saml: Leach," the text printed within a thick black typographic border in various type-sizes and faces. Evans 17528. Very rare. A typographically inventive, visually striking satirical broadside whose extensive text recounts American grievances against the King, alludes to some of the key events of the Revolution, including the Declaration of Independence: ("On that ever memorable and auspicious 4th of July, in the year of our Lord 1776, after near a sixteen years tyrannical reign, it was declared unto this second Nebuchadnezzar; even while his fleet and army were riding, (as he thought) triumphantly at New York...'Thy Kingdom is departed from thee.' Thus a most glorious Independency Commenced...."); and mentions Washington ("the directing hand of a Godlike Hero!") and the Battle of Yorktown ("a bloody Cornwallis Burgoyn'd") and exclaims, "Thus was begun, And by a progressive Series of remarkable events, continued and brought about, The most wonderful Revolution since Noah's Flood...."
BROADSIDE. [GEORGE III, Mock epitaph on]. E P I T A P H. INDIGNANT Reader, Whoever thou art, more especially an AMERICAN, Lift up thine eyes, be thankful, rejoice, and behold!...The residuum and political remnant of George the III. Button-maker; An enemy to liberty, and ungrateful, inexorable TYRANT, Of inglorious memory.....[three columns text, concluding:] May the Light Above, far more resplendant than the ashes of his favourite gunpowder, GRANT That his deeds be recorded...and that like NEBUCHADNEZZAR I. his hairs may grow as eagles feathers, his nails like birds claws, and instead of grass his food be thistles, to graze upon, not seven only but seventy times seven years, thrice told, on the summit of the highest mountain in North Britain, but never like him to reign again [inverted crown]. Philadelphia: Printed by F. Bailey 1782. Large folio, 408 x 315mm. (16 x 12 3/8 in.), minor staining and some abrasion at folds (not affecting text), backed with coarse linen, bold inscription at top margin "For Miss Rebecca Treat at Yorktown from Saml: Leach," the text printed within a thick black typographic border in various type-sizes and faces. Evans 17528. Very rare. A typographically inventive, visually striking satirical broadside whose extensive text recounts American grievances against the King, alludes to some of the key events of the Revolution, including the Declaration of Independence: ("On that ever memorable and auspicious 4th of July, in the year of our Lord 1776, after near a sixteen years tyrannical reign, it was declared unto this second Nebuchadnezzar; even while his fleet and army were riding, (as he thought) triumphantly at New York...'Thy Kingdom is departed from thee.' Thus a most glorious Independency Commenced...."); and mentions Washington ("the directing hand of a Godlike Hero!") and the Battle of Yorktown ("a bloody Cornwallis Burgoyn'd") and exclaims, "Thus was begun, And by a progressive Series of remarkable events, continued and brought about, The most wonderful Revolution since Noah's Flood...."
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