hangman

One cried, "God bless us!" and "Amen" the other,

As they had seen me with these hangman's hands.

I also asked some Royal Academicians to view it, viz. Northcote, Cosway, &c. who approved of it much: it is well composed, and beautifully coloured; but the hangmen at the Exhibition have not hung it in a conspicuous situation; it is placed in an ante-room, and pretty high […].