The M-r-ys, or, The thistle blown [graphic].[1743?]engTitle etched above image.Publication date from British Museum catalogue.Four lines of verse in two columns below image: As cannons shoot the higher pitches, the lower we let down their breeches ...Temporary local subject terms: Guns: cannon -- Personifications: political writer as a cannon -- Slogans: Broad Bottom (taking all parties and people indifferently into the ministry - Horace Walpole's definition) -- Animals: greyhound -- Boxes: strong box -- Lawyers -- Jacobites -- Male dress: peer's robes -- Literature: Hudibras by Samuel Butler, 1612-1680.