Ireland, John: Hogarth illustrated (Band 2,3): Nature (London, 1793)

BEER-STREET.

•' Beer, happy product of our isle,

*.* Can sinewy strength impart;
" And, wearied with fatigue and toil,

" Can cheer each manly heart.

"Labour and art, upheld by thee,

" Siic:f-;-;fuiiy :3.<::::.\\<;i; ;
" We quaff the balmy juice with glee,
" And water leave to France.

" Genius of health, thy grateful taste,

". Rivals the cup of Jove;
" And warms each English, generous breast,

" With liberty and love."

This admirable delineation is a picture of
Jobn Bull in his most happy moments. In the
left corner a butcher, and a blacksmith, are each
of them grasping a foaming tankard of porter. By
the King's Speech, and Daily Advertiser upon
the table before them, they appear to have been
studying politics, and settling the state of the na-
tion. The blacksmith having just purchased a
shoulder of mutton, triumphantly waves it in the
air. Next to him, a drayman whispers soft sen-
tences of love to a servant maid, round whose
neck is one of his arms; in the other hand he holds
a pot of porter. Two fish women, furnished with