Neck or Nothing
1716
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Frontispiece to Samuel Wesley's Neck or Nothing, which contains three scenes showing Edmund Curll's punishment by the Westminster schoolboys for Curll having used without permission a funeral oration for Dr. Robert South given by John Barber, headmaster of the school: at the top, he is tossed in a blanket; in the centre, he is flogged; and at the bottom, he is shown begging on his knees.
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