Ireland, John: Hogarth illustrated (Band 1): William Hogarth (London, 1793)

THE RAKE'S PROGRESS.

PLATE I.

" Oh, vanity of age untoward!
*' Ever spleeny, ever froward!
" Why these bolts and massy chains,
"'Squint suspicions, jealous .pains?
" Why, thy toilsome journey o'er,
*' Lay'st thou up an useless store?
" -Hope, along with Time is flown;
" Nor canst thou reap the field thou'st sown.
; ** Hast thou a son ? In time be wise;
** He views thy toil with other eyes.
" Needs must thy kind paternal care,
'.* Lock'd in thy chests, be buried there ?
" Whence, then, shall flow that friendly ease,
" That social converse, heartfelt peace,
" Familiar duty without dread,
" Instruction from example bred,
" Which youthful minds with freedom mend,
" And with the father mix (befriend.
" Uncircumscrib'd by prudent rules,
" Or precepts of expensive schools;
" Abus'd at home, abroad dcspis'd,
*' Unbred, unletter'd, unadvis'd;
" The headstrong course of life begun,
" What comfort from thy darling son?"

Hoadley.*

In the last series of prints Mr. Hogarth de-
lineated, with a master's hand, the miseries at-

" Under a pirated set of the Harlot's Progress, published