"There elbowing in 'mong the crowd with a jog, Lo! good father _Tobit_, said I, with his dog! But the artist is wrong; for the dog should be drawn At the heels of his master in trot o'er the lawn,-- To your idle remarks I take leave to demur, 'Tis not _Tobit_, nor yet his canonical cur, (Quoth a sage in the crowd) for I'd have you to know, Sir, 'Tis _Hogarth_ himself and his honest friend _Towser_, Inseparate companions! and therefore you see Cheek by jowl they are drawn in familiar degree; Both striking the eye with an equal eclat, The biped _This_ here, and the quadruped _That_-- You mean--the great dog and the man, I suppose, Or the man and the dog--be't just as you chuse.-- You correct yourself rightly--when much to be blam'd, For the worthiest person you first should have nam'd, Great dog! why great man I methinks you should say. Split the difference, my friend, they're both great in their way. Is't he then so famous for drawing a punk, A harlot, a rake, and a parson so drunk, Whom _Trotplaid_[1] delivers to praise as his friend? Thus a jacknapes a lion would fain recommend.-- The very self same--how boldly they strike, And I can't forbear thinking they're somewhat alike.-- Oh fie! to a dog would you _Hogarth_ compare?-- Not so--I say only they're alike as it were, A respectable pair! all spectators allow, And that they deserve a description below In capital letters, _Behold we are Two_." [1] The name under which _Fielding_ wrote a news-paper called _The Jacobite's Journal_, the frontispiece by _Hogarth_. 4. Portrait of _Hogarth_, small circle. Mr. _Basire_ (to whom this plate has been ascribed) says it is much in our artist's manner. On enquiry, however, it appears to be no other than a watch-paper "Published according to Act of Parliament by _R. Sayer_, opposite _Fetter-lane, Sept._ 29, 1749," and certainly copied from the small portrait of our artist introduced in _The Roast Beef of Old England_. Another head of him, with a fur cap on, was also edited by the same printseller, at the same time. There is likewise a third head of _Hogarth_, in an oval, prefixed as a frontispiece to "A Dissertation" on his six prints, &c. _Gin Lane_, &c. which appeared in 1751. * * * * * 1750.