Opinions on the divorce bill!! / Woodward del. ; etch'd by Rowlandson.

"Design in two strips showing twelve characters commenting on the Divorce Bill; an old scholar: 'There were many salutary laws on this subject amongst the Medes and Persians.', a black woman: 'What a hardship on the fair sex!', a thin, bent over man with a stick: 'Ay - and on the gay seducers too!', a weeping woman: 'The only comfort I had left!', a naive young girl: 'I must be married to know what they mean by it.', a weighty fellow: 'It cant be help'd - I have had my day!', an ugly but fashionable woman: 'Not to marry - the seducer of one's heart! was ever any thing so barbarous.', an officer: 'By St Patrick - this is the greatest cut, the cloth ever experienced.', a handsome woman: 'The beaus will absolutely run away from us.', a solid woman with a large muff: 'It is enough to make vone vicked, vether vone vill or not!', a thin man with pursed expression: 'The sums that I expected to clear by my wifes infidelity!', an alarmed cleric: 'Avoid temptation - the best of us may sometimes err!'."--British Museum online catalogue.