A man stands inside a barrel surrounded by a crowd of people some with bandages and some with books in their hands. Engraving by T. Sanders after Tim Bobbin (John Collier).
Wellcome Collection

A man stands inside a barrel surrounded by a crowd of people some with bandages and some with books in their hands. Engraving by T. Sanders after Tim Bobbin (John Collier).

1775

CC0 — Public Domain
Wellcome Collection

Lettering: The who have ears to hear let them hear. Behold this group of oddities, and then you'll see how fancy works in diff'rent men! How conscience warped distorts each holy face, and makes sighs and groans burst from these babes of grace. One feels the Devil dancing in his maw; another s'd him to a mere out-law. Some feel sharp thorns their consciences to prick a old done deeds do make their stomachs sick. Whilst lasses mourn some late transactions past, And looks repentant say -; they are my last. Thus crazy heads are whirl'd about with wind puff'd out from crafty knaves of every kind. Tim Bobbins inv. et del. T. Sanders sculp.

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