An illustrated poem eulogizing a deceased squirrel written by James Hadfield, imprisoned in Bethlem psychiatric hospital after attempting to assassinate King George III (1738-1820 CE), has gone on public display for the first time. Translation in the comments [2383×2873]

> Epitaph of my poor Jack. SQUIRREL.

> Here are the remains of my poor little Jack
Who, with a little fall, almost broke his back
And I myself was the occasion of that
By letting him be, frigthen’d, by a Cat
I then picked him up, from off the floor;
But he, alas “Never danced a hornpipe more;
And many a time have I laugh’d, to see him so cunningl
To sit and crack the nuts I gave him so funny;
Now in remembrance of his pretty tricks
I have had him stuff’d, that I might not him forget;
And so he is gone; and I must go, as well as him;
And pray God, send I may go, but with little sin;
So here is an end, to my little dancing Jack
That will never more be, frighten’d, by a Cat.
Died Sunday Morning, July 23, 1826.

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