Here struts old pious _Harry_, once the great Reformer of the _English_ church and state: 'Twas thus he stood, when _Anna Bullen's_ charms Allur'd the amorous monarch to her arms; With his right hand he leads her as his own, To place this matchless beauty on his throne; Whilst _Kate_ and _Piercy_ mourn their wretched fate, And view the royal pair with equal hate, Reflecting on the pomp of glittering crowns, And arbitrary power that knows no bounds. Whilst _Wolsey_, leaning on his throne of state, Through this unhappy change foresees his fate, Contemplates wisely upon worldly things, The cheat of grandeur, and the faith of kings. Mr. _Charlton_, of _Canterbury_, has a copy of this print, with the following title and verses: "King _Henry_ VIII. bringing to court _Anne Bullen_, who was afterwards his royal consort." _Hogarth design. &. sculp._ See here the great, the daring _Harry_ stands, Peace, Plenty, Freedom, shining in his face, With lovely _Anna Bullen_ joining hands, Her looks bespeaking ev'ry heav'nly grace. See _Wolsey_ frowning, discontent and sour, Feeling the superstitious _structure_ shake: While _Henry's_ driving off the _Roman_ whore, For _Britain's_ weal, and his _Lutherian's_ sake. Like _Britain's_ Genius our brave King appears, Despising Priestcraft, Avarice, and Pride; Nor the loud roar of _Babel's_ bulls he fears, The Dagon falls before his beauteous bride. Like _England's_ Church, all sweetness and resign'd, The comely queen her lord with calmness eyes; As if she said, If goodness guard your mind, You ghostly tricks and trump'ry may despise. [1] To the fate of this lady Dr. _Johnson_ has a beautiful allusion in his _Vanity of Human Wishes_: "Yet _Vane_ could tell what ills from beauty spring, And _Sedley_ curs'd the form that _pleas'd a king_." Perhaps the thought, that suggested this couplet, is found in _Loveling's_ Poems, a work already quoted: -------nec _Gwynnam_ valebat _Angliaco placuisse regi_. Mersa est acerbo funere sanguinis _Vanella_ clari: nec grave spiculum Averteret fati _Machaon_, Nec madido _Fredericus_ ore. 2. The same plate without any verses, but with an inscription added in their room. _Ramsay_ seems to have been particularly attached to _Hogarth_. He subscribed, as I have already observed, for thirty copies of the large _Hudibras_. The original picture was at _Vauxhall_, in the portico of the old great room on the right-hand of the entry into the garden. See p. 29. 3. Frontispiece to the "Humours of _Oxford_," a comedy by _James Miller_; acted at _Drury-Lane_, and published in 8vo, 1729.[1] _W. Hogarth inv. G. Vandergucht sc._ The Vice-chancellor, attended by his beadle, surprizing two Fellows of a College, one of them much intoxicated, at a tavern.