The following lines were written under a picture of _Defesch_, painted by _Soldi_, 1751. Thou honor'st verse, and verse must lend her wing, To honor thee, the priest of _Phœbus'_ quire, That _tun'st_ her happiest lines in hymn or song. MILTON. _Defesch_ was the patriotic Mr. _Hollis's_ music-master. 4. Boys peeping at Nature. "_The subscription-ticket to the Harlot's Progress._" A copy in aqua-tinta from this receipt was made by _R. Livesay_ in 1781, and is to be had at Mrs. _Hogarth's_ house in _Leicester-square_. * * * * * 1733 and 1734. 1.[1] The Harlot's Progress,[2] in six plates. In the first is a portrait of Colonel _Chartres_. "Cette figure de viellard (says _Rouquet_) est d'aprés nature; c'est le portrait d'un officier très riche, fameux dans ce tems-là pour de pareilles expéditions, grand séducteur de campagnardes, et qui avoit toujours à ses gages des femmes de la profession de celle qui cajole ici la nouvelle débarquée." Behind him is _John Gourlay_ a Pimp, whom he always kept about his person. The next figure that attracts our notice, is that of Mother _Needham_. To prove this woman was sufficiently notorious to have deserved the satire of _Hogarth_, the following paragraphs in _The Grub-street Journal_ are sufficient. _March_ 25, 1731. "The noted Mother _Needham_ was yesterday committed to _The Gatehouse_ by Justice _Railton_." Ibid. "Yesterday, at the quarter-sessions for the city and liberties of _Westminster_, the infamous Mother _Needham_, who has been reported to have been dead for some time, to screen her from several prosecutions, was brought from _The Gatehouse_, and pleaded not guilty to an indictment found against her for keeping a lewd and disorderly house; but, for want of sureties, was remanded back to prison." Ibid. _April_ 29, 1731. "Oh _Saturday_ ended the quarter-sessions for _Westminster_, &c. The noted Mother _Needham_, convicted for keeping a disorderly house in _Park Place, St. James's,_ was fined One Shilling, to stand twice in the pillory, and find sureties for her good behaviour for three years." Ibid. _May_ 6, 1731. "Yesterday the noted Mother _Needham_ stood in the pillory in _Park Place_, near _St. James's-street_, and was roughly handled by the populace. She was so very ill that she lay along, notwithstanding which she was so severely &c. that it is thought she will die in a day or two."--Another account says--"she lay along on her face in the pillory, and so evaded the law which requires that her face should be exposed."--"Yesterday morning died Mother _Needham_. She declared in her last words,[3] that what most affected her was the terror of standing in the pillory to-morrow in _New Palace-yard_, having been so ungratefully used by the populace on _Wednesday_." The memory of this woman is thus perpetuated in _The Dunciad_, I. 323. "To _Needham's_ quick the voice triumphal rode, But pious _Needham_ dropt the name of God."