Part 14 (1/2)

PLATE 4

THE INDUSTRIOUS 'PRENTICE A FAVOURITE, AND ENTRUSTED BY HIS MASTER]

INDUSTRY AND IDLENESS

PLATE V

THE IDLE 'PRENTICE TURNED AWAY AND SENT TO SEA

”A foolish son is the heaviness of his mother” Proverbs, chap x

verse 1

Corrupted by sloth and conta tired the patience of hisremoved from the vices of the town, and the influence of his wicked companions, joined with the hardshi+ps and perils of a seafaring life, ht effect that reformation of which his friends despaired while he continued on shore See him then in the shi+p's boat, acco towards the vessel in which he is to eures in the boat, and the expression of their countenances, tell us plainly, that his evil pursuits and incorrigible wickedness are the subjects of their discourse The wateribbet, as emblematical of his future fate, should he not turn from the evil of his ways; and the boy shows him a cat-o'-nine-tails, expressive of the discipline that awaits him on board of shi+p; these admonitions, however, he notices only by the application of his fingers to his forehead, in the for them to look at Cuckold's Point, which they have just passed; he then throws his indentures into the water with an air of contempt, that proves how little he is affected by his present condition, and how little he regards the persuasions and tears of a fond rief at the fate of her darling son, and perhaps her only stay; for her dress seeht Solomon say, that ”a foolish son is the heaviness of his mother;” for we here behold her who had often rejoiced in the prospect of her child being a prop to her in the decline of life, la with horror the terine, fros, that this scene would have awakened his reflection, and been the edness of his disposition,--that some tender ideas would have crossed his mind and melted the obduracy of his heart; but he continues hardened and callous to every ad this print has been copied by the ingenious Lavater; hose appropriate remarks we conclude our present description ”Observe,” says this great analyst of the huroup, that unnatural wretch, with the infernal visage, insulting his supplicating mother; the predoh all disfigured by effrontery, is cunning and ironical raved on it: 'Nothingrenders the countenance so hideous as villainy'”

[Illustration: INDUSTRY AND IDLENESS

PLATE 5

THE IDLE 'PRENTICE TURNED AWAY AND SENT TO SEA]

INDUSTRY AND IDLENESS

PLATE VI

THE INDUSTRIOUS 'PRENTICE OUT OF HIS TIME, AND MARRIED TO HIS MASTER'S DAUGHTER

”The virtuous woman is a crown to her husband” Proverbs, chap

xiii verse 4

The reward of industry is success Our prudent and attentive youth is now becohter The sign, by which this circumstance is intimated, was at first inscribed GOODCHILD and WEST So him that it was usual for the senior partner's nans in this mansion, a servant distributes the reroo to ancient custoratulations the day after a wedding A performer on the bass viol, and a herd of butchers arlish concert (Madalish taste forthat is full in the mouth) A cripple with the ballad of Jesse, or the Happy Pair, represents a man known by the name of Philip in the Tub, who had visited Ireland and the United Provinces; and, in the eneral attendant at weddings From those votaries of Hymen ere honoured with his epithalamiums, he received a small reward To show that Messrs West and Goodchild's habitation is near the monuround

The inscription which until lately graced this structure, used to remind every reader of Pope's lines,

Where London's colu to the skies, Like a tall bully, rears its head, and lies, &c

The duke of Buckinghaenerally known:

Here stand I, The Lord knohy; But if I fall-- Have at ye all!

A footman and butcher, at the opposite corner, coht serve for the Gog and Magog of Guildhall