Poor old England endeavoring to reclaim his wicked American children = and therefore is England mained and forced to go with a staff

Darly, M

Hand-coloured etching from a composite album of 97 folios (147 prints) of comic illustrations under the title Darly's Comic Prints of Characters, Caricatures, Macaronies &c., published by Mary and Matthew Darly in London in 1777. The subtitle is a line spoken by the character Jack Cade (leader of a popular revolt in England in 1450) in Shakespeare’s Henry VI, Part II. The play deals with the English king’s inability to subdue his nobles; equating historic events with the situation in the American colonies.