How to ride up Hyde Park (BM 1962,0828.5)

Facing p. 37. A smartly dressed man of vulgar appearance rides (left to right) a horse which starts forward. He looks smiling to the right; his right leg is thrust forward almost horizontally, his right hand is on the horse's neck. He is the cit riding on Sunday:

'Anxious and fearful too his steed to shew,
The hack Bucephalus of Rotten Row;
Careless he seems, yet vigilantly sly
Woo's the stray glance of ladies passing by;
Whilst his left heel, insidiously aside,
Provokes the caper that he seems to chide."' (p. 38.) A Dublin piracy, after 1787

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