We have seen that Fox was at Brighton in 1784. Fox, who was the 'guide, philosopher, and friend' of Prince Florizel, was at this time a man of about thirty-five or thirty-six, having been born in 1749. By his birth, education, and talents he should have been a fitting companion for the Prince, but he was lax in his morals, an inveterate gambler, and a hard drinker, and a worse comrade for a young man could scarcely be found. Indeed, at the end of the Westminster election of 1784 Gillray caricatured him in a satirical print entitled 'Preceptor and Pupil' as a loathsome toad with a fox's brush, who is whispering into the ear of the sleeping (or drunken) Prince: 'Abjure thy country and thy parents, and I will give thee dominion over many powers. Better to rule in Hell than serve in Heaven!' Apropos of this election, which lasted forty days, and brought Fox in second at the poll, it is perhaps as famous as any in our electoral history. Much to the disgust of his parents, the Prince threw himself heart and soul into the fray, wearing a 'Fox cockade' at Ranelagh, and allowing members of his household to canvas for his boon companion. During the election, Gillray produced a satirical print (April 18, 1784) called 'Returning from Brooks's,' where the Prince, exceedingly drunk, and wearing the 'Fox cockade,' is being helped along by Fox and Sam House, a publican who kept a house, called The Intrepid Fox, at the corner of Peter Street and Wardour Street. 'Honest Sam House,' as he was called, was a violent politician and Whig, and during this election kept open house at his own expense. House figures in many caricatures of the time, and his fame was even enshrined in verse: 'See the brave Sammy House, he's as still as a mouse, And does canvas with prudence so clever; See what shoals with him flocks, to poll for brave Fox: Give thanks to Sam House, boys, for ever, for ever, for ever! Give thanks to Sam House, boys, for ever! 'Brave bald-headed Sam, all must own, is the man, Who does canvas for brave Fox so clever: His aversion, I say, is to _small beer_ and _Wray_:[37] May his bald head be honour'd for ever, for ever, for ever! May his bald head be honour'd for ever!' There is another satirical print, which is dated January, 1785, by an unknown artist, called 'Fox singing a Song to the P----e of W--l--s.' Fox and the Prince are playing cards and drinking. Fox sings: 1. 'Tho' matters at present go cross in the realm, You will one day be K--g, Sir, and I at the helm; So let us be jovial, drink, gamble and sing, Nor regard it a straw, tho' we're not yet the thing. Tol de rol, tol, tol, tol de rol. 2.