“IMPROMPTU ON HER GRACE OF DEVONSHIRE.
“Whilst Devon’s Duchess for Fox takes a part,
Whilst she asks for your vote, she engages your heart;
Can beauty alone such influence sway?
Can the fairest of fair make all mortals obey?—
Oh no; for her empire is over the mind,
And beauty with reason in her is combin’d.”
| Fox. | Wray. | Hood. |
THE CASE IS ALTERED. BY T. ROWLANDSON.
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Although every concession was made to the empire of Beauty, many of the verses were slyly sarcastic, while some of the caricatures were strongly coloured by the uncompromising coarseness of the age:—