Part 11 (1/2)

The bloo of this blissful pair, In all their parents' attic pleasures share

Sophy the soft, the mother's earliest joy, De'd, denies the glittering prize, And rends the air with loud and piteous cries

Thus far we see the party on their way-- What dire disasters mark'd the close of day, 'Twere tedious, tiresoination ue better delineated than in the appearance of this aarth printed the hands of the man in blue, to show that he was a dyer, and the face and neck of the woman in red, to intimate her extreme heat The lady's aspect lets us at once into her character; we are certain that she was born to command As to her husband, God made him, and he must pass for a man: what his wife has made him, is indicated by the cow's horns; which are so placed as to become his own The hopes of the fa upon papa's cane, seems much dissatisfied with female sway A face with irl, it is scarcely possible to conceive

Upon such a character the most casual observer pronounces with the decision of a Lavater

Nothing can be better iroup in the alehouse They have taken a refreshi+ng walk into the country, and, being deter pipe, seat the; where everya pocket-handkerchief over his head, inhales the fumes of hot punch, the smoke of half a dozen pipes, and the dust froentle, and the toh, take their seats in the open air

Fro a coe conjecture the hour to be about five in the afternoon: and, froreeable party is going to their pastoral bower, rather than returning fro appear as much inconvenienced by heat as any of the party: the forly along, and casts a longing look at the crystal river, in which he sees his own shadow A remarkably hot su over an alehouseOn the side of the New River, where the scene is laid, lies one of the wooden pipes employed in the water-works Opposite Sadler's Wells there still reh Middleton's head, which is here represented; but how changed the scene from what is here represented!

[Illustration: EVENING]

NIGHT

Now burst the blazing bonfires on the sight, Through the wide air their corruscations play; The s beaion e mason, from yon tavern led, In mystic words doth to thehead, And o'er the waiter waves his clouded cane

Mr Walpole very truly observes, that this print is inferior to the three others; there is, however, broad huures

The wounded free-mason, who, in zeal of brotherly love, has drank his bumpers to the craft till he is unable to find his way hoenerally considered as intended for Sir Thomas de Veil, and, from an authenticated portrait which I have seen, I a Sir John Hawkins asserts, that ”he could discover no reseisterial capacity, he was probably sober and sedate; here he is represented a little disguised The British Xantippe showering her favours from theupon his head, may have its source in that respect which the inmates of such houses as the Runation of Mr

Horace Walpole, in February, 1738, De Veil was appointed inspector-general of the iainst the retailers of spirituous liquors, that one Allen headed a gang of rioters for the purpose of pulling down his house, and bringing to a summary punishment two informers ere there concealed Allen was tried for this offence, and acquitted, upon the jury's verdict declaring him lunatic

The waiter who supports his worshi+p, seems, from the patch upon his forehead, to have been in a recent affray; but what use he can have for a lantern, it is not easy to divine, unless he is conducting his charge to soht nor illu and broken, by passing through the bonfire, is said to be an intended burlesque upon a right honourable peer, as accustoes, ditches, and rivers; and has been sometimes known to drive three or four of his maid servants into a deep water, and there leave them in the coach to shi+ft for themselves

The butcher, and little felloho are assisting the terrified passengers, are possibly free and accepted masons One of theht

To crown the joys of the populace, a shead with British Burgundy

The joint operation of shaving and bleeding, perforreasy oil night

The poor wretches under the barber's bench display a prospect of penury and wretchedness, which it is to be hoped is not so common now, as it was then

In the distance is a cart laden with furniture, which so out of the reach of his landlord's execution

There is hu, and teeth draith a touch ECCE SIGNUM!”