In pity give three cheers! A parody on The beggar's petition. [graphic][1821?]engHeading to printed verses. George IV has just come ashore, with a boat seen on the coast behind him and the royal yacht out in the water beyond; he carries a scepter in his right hand a large green bag on his back, the ties of which resemble antlers or horns above his head. A group of men with donkey ears greet him on the left; one man holds a flag showing two cows, and another a long document with the heading "Cows." Behind the King, on the right edge of the design, three men in uniform look on.Title printed in letterpress below image.Date from manuscript annotation beneath lower right corner of image.Sheet trimmed within plate mark.Eight stanzas of verse in three columns below title, in letterpress: Pity the sorrows of a poor old man, Whose gilded yacht has borne him to your shore ...Four lines of text, printed in italics, at bottom of third column: The above stanzas were lately picked up on the shore near Cowes. The lines that are left out were illegible, apparently from the manuscript, which was torn, having been used in keeping a pair of refractory whiskers in good order.Not in the Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum.