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The World is Ruled & Governed by Opinion (BM 1850,0223.244 2)

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Opinion represented as a blindfold woman, crowned with the Tower of Babel, with terrestrial globe on her lap, chameleon on her left arm and staff in her right hand, seated in a tree from which hang or fall pamphlets and broadsides, among which can be identified by title, "[John] Taylor's Reply", "The Ironmonger's Answer" (probably representing "An Answer to a Foolish Pamphlet" by Henry Walker), "Mercuries Message", "News from Elyzium", "Hellish Parliament", "A Swarme of Sectaries", "Canterburies Troubles", "Brownists Conventicle", "Taylors Physicke", "Lambeth Faire"; a man in motley watering the tree from watering-can on his shoulder at left, elegantly-dressed man standing speaking at right; with text in two columns below. 1642

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1642
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British Museum
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