What chaos such misuse attends! Friendship stoops to prey on friends; Health, that gives relish to delight, Is wasted with the wasting night; Doubt and mistrust is thrown on _Heaven_, And all its power to _Chance_ is given. Sad purchase of repentant tears, Of needless quarrels, endless fears, Of hopes of moments, pangs of years! Sad purchase of a _tortur'd mind_ To an _imprison'd body_ join'd! PLATE VII. Happy the man, whose constant thought (Though in the school of hardship taught) Can send _Remembrance_ back to fetch Treasures from life's earliest stretch; Who, self-approving, can review Scenes of past virtues, which shine through The gloom of age, and cast a ray To gild the evening of his day! Not so the guilty wretch confin'd: No pleasures meet his conscious mind; No blessings brought from early youth, But broken faith and wrested truth, Talents idle and unus'd, And every trust of Heaven abus'd. In seas of sad reflection lost, From horrors still to horrors toss'd, _Reason_ the vessel leaves to steer, And gives the helm to mad _despair_. PLATE VIII. _Madness!_ thou chaos of the brain; What art, that pleasure giv'st and pain? Tyranny of Fancy's reign! Mechanic _Fancy!_ that can build Vast labyrinths and mazes wild, With rule disjointed, shapeless measure, Fill'd with _horror_, fill'd with _pleasure!_ Shapes of _horror_, that would even Cast doubt of mercy upon Heaven! Shapes of _pleasure_, that but seen Would split the shaking sides of _spleen_. O vanity of age! here see The stamp of Heaven effac'd by thee! The headstrong course of youth thus run, What comfort from this darling son? His rattling chains with terror hear; Behold Death grappling with despair; See him by thee to ruin sold, And curse _Thyself_, and curse thy _Gold_. On this occasion also appeared an 8vo pamphlet, intituled, "The Rake's Progress, or the Humours of _Drury-Lane_, a poem in eight canto's, in _Hudibrastick_ verse, being the ramble of a modern _Oxonian_, which is a compleat key to the eight prints lately published by the celebrated Mr. _Hogarth_." The second edition with additions, particularly an "epistle to Mr. _Hogarth_" was "printed for _J. Chetwood_, and sold at _Inigo Jones's-Head_ against _Exeter Change_ in _The Strand_, 1735." This is a most contemptible and indecent performance. Eight prints are inserted in some copies of it; but they are only the designs of _Hogarth_ murdered, and perhaps were not originally intended for the decoration of the work already described.