[2] The following lines were written by the Rev. Mr. _Townley_, Master of _Merchant Taylors' School_, and spoken by one of the Scholars, _October_ 22, 1767, ASSA BUBULA. Littore in opposito, quâ turrim _Dubris_ in altum Ostentans, undas imperiosa regit, Ferrea stat, multo cum milite, porta _Calesi_: (Ingenium pinxit talia, _Hogarthe_, tuum). Eo! sudans carnis portat latus ille bovile, Quem, trepidis genibus, grande fatigat onus; Obstupet hic fixis oculis atque ore patenti, Et tenue, invitus, jus cito mittit humi: Accedit monachus, digito tangente rubentem Carnem, divinum prodigiumque colit. Omnia visa placent animum; non pascis inani Picturâ, pariter quæ placet atque docet. Egregius patriæ proprios dat pictor honores; Et palmam jussa est ferre bovina caro. [3] Mr. _Walpole's_ new edition of his "Anecdotes of Painting" having been published whilst the present page was preparing for the second edition, I took the earliest opportunity of letting that admirable writer speak for himself, in answer to a particular in which I had presumed to differ from him. "If _Hogarth_ indulged his spirit of ridicule in personalities," (I now use the words of Mr. _Walpole_) "it never proceeded beyond sketches and drawings; his prints touched the folly, but spared the person. Early he drew a noted miser, one of the sheriffs, trying a mastiff that had robbed his kitchen, but the magistrate's son went to his house and cut the picture in pieces.[A] I have been reproved for this assertion," continues our agreeable Biographer, "and instances have been pointed out that contradict me. I am far from persevering in an error, and do allow that my position was too positive. Still some of the instances adduced were by no means caricaturas. Sir _John Gonson_ and Dr. _Misaubin_ in the _Harlot's Progress_ were rather examples identified than satires. Others, as Mr. _Pine's_, were mere portraits, introduced by their own desire, or with their consent." [A] See above, p. 69. 2. Portrait of _John Palmer_, esq. lord of the manor of _Cogenhoe_ or _Cooknoe_, and patron of the church, of _Ecton_ in _Northamptonshire. W. Hogarth pinx. B. Baron sculp._ This small head is inserted under a view of _Ecton_ Church. 3. His own head in a cap, a pug-dog, and a palette with the line of beauty, &c. inscribed _Gulielmus Hogarth. Seipse pinxit & sculpsit._ Very scarce, because _Hogarth_ erased his own portrait, and introduced that of Mr. _Churchill_, under the character of a bear, in its room. See under the year 1763. On this print, in its original state, the _Scandalizade_, a satire published about 1749, has the following lines. The author represents himself as standing before the window of a print-shop.