At right of title: "This Miry Slough in such a place as can not be mended; - it is the descent whither the Scum & "& [sic] Filth that attends being Convicted of Sin, doth continually run; it is called the Slough of Despond, " for when a Sinner is Trap'd in his Sins, he sinks into Despondency under the Burden of his own Wickedness."
Print shows Fox (like Christian in 'The Pilgrim's Progress') up to his shoulders in a mire and looking despairingly up a straight path leading to a fortified gateway in a castellated wall inscribed: 'Knock, & it shall be opened. The Straight Gate: or the way to the Patriots Paradise.' From it flies a flag of 'Libertas', surmounted with the cap of Liberty. Within the wall is a ladder slanting towards a waning moon. On his back is a bundle inscribed 'Contents French Gold, French Loyalty, French Daggers, And Crimes, more num'rous than the sands, upon the Ocean's shore.' His hat has fallen off, the tricolour cockade and motto 'Ca ira' are half submerged. His large club rises from the slough: 'Patriots Staff - i.e. Whig Club'. Before him floats an open book: 'Gospel of Liberty by the four Evangelists St Paine St Price St Priestly St Petion Fly to the Wrath to come." Fox is saying: "Help! Help! - will no kind Power lend a hand to deliver me ? - Oh! what will become of me ? - all my former Friends have forsaken me! - if I try to go on, I sink deeper in the Filth; & my feet are stuck so fast in the Mire, that I can not get back, 'tho I try; - Ah me! - this Burden upon my Back overwhelm's me, & presses me down! - I shall Rise no more! - I am lost for ever, & shall never see the Promis'd Land!!"