[7] "This alludes to some surprizing cures she performed before Sir _Hans Sloane_ at _The Grecian Coffee-house_ (where she came once a week from _Epsom_ in her chariot with four horses): viz. a man of _Wardour-street_, whose back had been broke nine years, and stuck out two inches; a niece of Sir _Hans Sloane_ in the like condition; and a gentleman who went with one shoe heel six inches high, having been lame twenty years of his hip and knee, whom she set strait, and brought his leg down even with the other." _Gent. Mag._ 1756, p. 617. [8] A chief betokeneth a senator, or honourable personage borrowed from the _Greeks_, and is a word signifying a head; and as the head is the chief part of a man, so the chief in the escutcheon should be a reward of such only whose high merits have procured them chief place, esteem, or love amongst men. [9] The bearing of clouds in armes (saith _Upton_) doth import some excellencie. [10] Originally printed _docter_, but afterwards altered in this print. * * * * * 1737. 1. The Lecture. "Datur vacuum." The person reading is well known to be the late Mr. _Fisher_, of _Jesus College, Oxford_, and Registrar of that University. This portrait was taken with the free consent of Mr. _Fisher_; who died _March_ 18, 1761. There are some impressions in which "Datur vacuum" is not printed, that leaf being entirely blank; published _January_ 20, 1736-7; the other _March_ 3, 1736. _Hogarth_ at first marked these words in with a pen and ink. 2. _Æneas_ in a Storm. The following advertisement appeared in _The London Daily Post, January_ 17, 1736-7. "This day is published, price sixpence, a hieroglyphical print called _Æneas in a Storm_. "Tanta hæc mulier potuit suadere malorum. "Sold by the booksellers and printsellers in town and country. Of whom may be had, a print called _Tartuff's Banquet_, or _Codex's_ Entertainment. Price one shilling. "--populus me sibilat, at mihi plaudo Ipse domi." The same paper mentions the King's arrival at _Loestoff_ on the 16th of _January_, and afterwards at _St. James's_ on the 17th. The author of this print, whoever he was, did not venture to put his name to so ludicrous a representation of the tempest which happened on King _George_ the Second's return from _Hanover_. His Majesty is supposed to have kicked his hat overboard. This, it seems, was an action customary to him when he was in a passion. To the same circumstance _Loveling_ has alluded in his Sapphic Ode ad _Carolum B----_.[1] Concinet majore poeta plectro _Georgium_,[2] quandoque calens furore Gestiet circa thalamum ferire Calce galerum. I have been told, that Mr. _Garrick_, when he first appeared in the character of _Bayes_, taking the same liberty, received instantly such a message from one of the stage boxes, as prevented him from practising so insolent a stroke of mimickry a second time.