Author: BRITANNIA
Title: The Female Association for Preserving Liberty and Property.
Description: James Asperne, 1803. Broadside, 420 x 280 mm. cropped at the head. Rare with the BL as the sole location. A jeu d'esprit on the threatened invasion by Napoleon. "With the heroic examples of Boudicia and Elizabeth before them, they mean to appeal to passions truly English> and, on this great occasion, to rouse the courage and gallantry of their Countrymen, by means at once energetic and feminine> for which purposes the following plan of a Female Association, drawn up, and settled... Britannia presides..." "We do further promise and agree, to annoy the enemy, wheresoever he shall have the temerity to Invade us, with all the Flames, Darts, and Arrows which nature has so liberally armed us. And we, the unmarried part of this Association, do most sincerely promise and swear, that we will remit during the war, but no longer, the tribute so justly due to us, consisting of vollies of sighs, offered by our lovers, as incense at our shrines> provided they be turned into vollies of shot, and poured upon the enemy." "We are morever determined... not to have any intercourse with any man, nor accept his hand in a dance, nor lean upon his arm for support, who is not ready to use them in defence of his King and Country."

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