PLATE V. Released from _Bridewell, Poll_ again Drives on her former trade amain; But who e'er heard of trading wenches That long escap'd disease that _French_ is? Our _Polly_ did not--Ills on ills, Elixirs, boluses and pills, Catharticks and emeticks dreary, Had made her of her life quite weary; At last thrown into salivation She sinks beneath the operation. A snuffling whore in waiting by her Screams out to see the wretch expire. The _Doctors_ blame each other; _Meagre_, With wrath transported, hot and eager, Starts up, throws down the chair and stool, And calls her brother _Squab_ a fool. Your pills, quoth _Squab_, with cool disdain, Not my elixir, prov'd her bane. While they contend, a muffled Punk Is rummaging poor _Polly's_ trunk. PLATE VI. The sisterhood of _Drury-lane_ Are met to form the funeral train. _Priss_ turns aside the coffin lid, To take her farewell of the dead. _Kate_ drinks dejected; _Peggy_ stands With dismal look, and wrings her hands. _Beck_ wipes her eyes; and at the glass In order _Jenny_ sets her face. The ruin'd _Bawd_ roars out her grief; Her bottle scarcely gives relief. _Madge_ fills the wine; his castle-top With unconcern the _Boy_ winds up. The _Undertaker_ rolls his eyes On _Sukey_, as her glove he tries: His leering she observes, and while he Stands thus, she picks his pocket slily. The _Parson_ sits with look demure By _Fanny's_ side, but leaning to her. His left hand spills the wine; his right-- I blush to add--is out of sight. Over the figure of the _Parson_ is the letter A, which conducts to the following explanation underneath the plate. "A. The famous _Couple-Beggar_ in _The Fleet_, a wretch who there screens himself from the justice due to his _villainies_, and daily repeats them." All but the first impressions of this set of plates are marked thus †. None were originally printed off except for the 1200 subscribers. Immediately after they were served, the plates were retouched, and some of the variations introduced. [1] In _The Craftsman_ of _Nov._ 25, 1732, we read, "This day is published, six prints in chiaro oscuro, of _The Harlot's Progress_, from the designs of Mr. _Hogarth_, in a beautiful green tint, by Mr. _E. Kirkall_, with proper explanations under each print. Printed and sold by _E. Kirkall_, in _Dockwell-court, White-Fryars; Phil. Overton_, in _Fleet-street; H. Overton_ and _J. Hoole_, without _Newgate; J. King_, in the _Poultry_; and _T. Glass_, under the _Royal Exchange_." Lest any of our readers should from hence suppose we have been guilty of an innacuracy in appropriating this set of prints to the year 1733, &c. it is necessary to observe, that the plates advertised as above, were only a pirated copy of _Hogarth's_ work, and were published before their original.