THE RIGHT DIVINE OF KINGS TO GOVERN WRONG.
[End matter]
![[Cruikshank image of mechanical "despot" trampling on bodies of people.
A gallows and burning homes are visible in the background; a cap of liberty
stands on a staff in the foreground, about to be attacked by the
despot.]](./right-divine-teilite5_files/right-divine-closer-web.jpg)
A thing of no bowels-------
-----from the crown to the toe, topfull
Of direst cruelty. -- His Realm a slaughter-house--
The swords of soldiers are in his teeth-- --
Iron for NAPLES, hid with English gilt.1
SHAKESPEARE.
THE END.
Printed by W. Hone, Ludgate Hill, London.
Notes
1. [KG] The caption to
Cruikshank's image is a collage of quotations from several different Shakespeare plays: "A
thing of no bowels" is from Thersites' speech,
Troilus and Cressida (II.ii); "from the
crown to the toe, topfull / Of direst cruelty" is misquoted
from Macbeth (I.v.33-34); "The swords of
soldiers are in his teeth" is misquoted from King
John (II.i.353); and "Iron for NAPLES, hid with
English gilt" is punningly misquoted from
Henry VI, part 3 (II.ii.139). [return]