[A] Non sic præcipiti carbasa tensa noto. * * * * * 1739. 1. Several children of _The Foundling Hospital_; the boys with mathematical instruments; the girls with spinning wheels. Over the door of the house they come out of, are the King's-arms. A porter is bringing in a child, followed by Capt. _Coram_, whose benevolent countenance[1] is directed towards a kneeling woman. On the right hand is a view of a church; near it a woman lifting a child from the ground; at a little distance another infant exposed near a river. In the back of the picture, a prospect of ships sailing. _W. Hogarth inv. F. Morellon la Cave sculp. London._ This is prefixed to an engraved Power of Attorney, from the trustees of _The Foundling Hospital_, to those gentlemen who were appointed to receive subscriptions towards the building, &c. The whole together is printed on a half sheet. [1] See p. 261. * * * * * 1741. 1. The Enraged Musician, _Designed, engraved, and published by W. Hogarth._ "Mr. _John Festin_,[1] the first hautboy and _German_ flute of his time, had numerous scholars, to each of whom he devoted an hour every day. At nine in the morning he attended Mr. _Spencer_, grandfather to the earl of that name. If he happened to be out of town on any day, he devoted that hour to another. One morning at that hour he waited on Mr. _V----n_, afterwards Lord _V----n_. He was not up. Mr. _Festin_ went into his chamber, and opening the shutter of a window, sat down in it. The figure with the hautboy was playing under the window. A man, with a barrow full of onions, came up to the player, and sat on the edge of his barrow, and said to the man, 'if you will play the _Black Joke_, I will give you this onion.' The man played it. When he had so done, the man again desired him to play some other tune, and then he would give him another onion. 'This,' said _Festin_ to me, 'highly angered me; I cried out, Z----ds, sir, stop here. This fellow is ridiculing my profession: he is playing on the hautboy for onions.' Being intimate with Mr. _Hogarth_, he mentioned the circumstance to him; which, as he said, was the origin of 'The enraged Musician.' The fact may be depended upon. Mr. _Festin_[2] was himself the Enraged Performer." The story is here told just as he related it to a clergyman, in whose words the reader now receives it.