Nottingham, not Newcastle

Sculptor: Sir William Wilson (1641-1710), c.1680

William Cavendish, the First Duke of Newcastle-upon-Tyne
is notable in Nottingham not Newcastle
on the site of a slighted castle that has been unfortified
upon the façade of a fired house that is no longer a home
above a door that is now a window
that looks into a room without a floor
of a pioneering public art gallery
which has now been
privatized behind a paywall.

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assaulted, belittled, castigated, decapitated,
emasculated, flayed, goaded, hobbled,
incapacitated, jinxed, kiboshed, lacerated,
maimed, nobbled, ostracized, pelted, queered,
rubbished, slated, traduced, usurped, vilified,
whacked, xoanoned, yoked, zapped

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From a sketch by Nicholas Hawksmoor, c. 1685