"Up _Kettleby_ starts with a _horrible stare!_ 'Behold, my good Lord, your old friend at the bar, Or rather old foe, for foes we have been, As treason fell out, and poor traitors fell in. Strong opposites e'er, and not once of a side, Attornies will always great counsel divide. You _for_ persecutions, I always _against_, How oft with a joke 'gainst your law have I fenc'd? How oft in your pleadings I've pick'd out a hole, Thro' which from your pounces my culprit I've stole; I've puzzled against you now eight years or nine, You, my Lord, for your King, I a ----l for mine. But what is all this? Now your Lordship will say, To get at the office this is not the way. I own it is not, so I make no request For myself, still firm to my party and test: But if 'tis your pleasure to give it my son, He shall take off his coif t'accept of the boon; That coif I, refusing, transferr'd upon him, For who'd be a serjeant where _P----r_ was Prime? That my son is a lawyer no one can gainsay, As witness his getting off _W----te_ t'other day.' Quo' my Lord, 'My friend _Abel_, I needs must allow You have puzzled me oft, as indeed you do now; Nay, have puzzled yourself, the court and the law, And chuckled most wittily over a flaw; For your nostrums, enigmas, conundrums, and puns, Are above comprehension, save that of your son's. To fling off the coif! Oh fye, my friend _Abel_, 'Twould be acting the part of the Cock in the Fable! 'Tis a badge of distinction! and some people buy it; Can you doubt on't, when _Skinner_ and _Hayward_ enjoy it? Tho' I own you have spoil'd (but I will not enlarge on't) A good Chancery draftsman to make a bad Serjeant.'" Lord _Northington_ did not come into notice till many years after the publication of this print. * * * * * 1735. 1. The Rake's Progress, in eight plates. Extract from the _London Daily Post, May_ 14, 1735: "The nine prints from the paintings of Mr. _Hogarth_, one representing a Fair, and the others a Rake's Progress, are now printing off, and will be ready to be delivered on the 25th of _June_ next. "Subscriptions will be taken at Mr. _Hogarth's_, the _Golden-Head_, in _Leicester-fields_, till the 23d of _June_, and no longer, at half a guinea to be paid on subscribing, and half a guinea more on delivery of the prints at the price above-mentioned, after which the price will be two guineas.