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Lettered inside image, center left: "'You, a Regent, there! take that for your Regency you have nothing but the name.'"; center: "'This Crown sits so heavy on me that I fear it will fall and pull my Head down with it.'"; center right: "'By Gar Monsieur Anglois, now is de time to give you von kick of the Bum.'"; lettered below image, lower center: "The English Regency. | London, Publish'd Jany. 19th, 1789, by H. Humphries, New Bond Street."; lower left: "Can free bown Britons Tamely Sit, | And see the Brunswick line disgrac'd | As if to govern found unfit, | Or that the Crown had been misplac'd"; lower right: "Forbear rash Youth in time retire, | Nor further Vengance dare, | The Scene may Change while you aspire; | And doom you! The Lord knows where."