our great wardrobe, or otherwise, to hold and exercise and enjoy the said office to the said William Hogarth, during our pleasure by himself, or his sufficient deputy or deputies, together with the yearly fee or salary of ten pounds, payable at the receipt of our Exchequer, out of any of our revenues there applicable to the uses of our civil government, unto the said William Hogarth, for the exercise and execution of the said office, and to commence from the time to which he was last paid thereupon, by virtue of or under the letters patent before recited, and to be computed payable and paid from such the commencement thereof by the day, or for the quarter, as the case may require, to and for the then next ensuing usual quarterly day of payment in the year; and from thenceforth quarterly, at the four most usual quarterly days of payment in the year, by even and equal portions during his continuance in the said office; and together with all other fees, liveries, profits, commodities, and advantages to the said office belonging, or in any wise appertaining, and in as full, ample, and beneficial manner and form to all intents and purposes as he the said William Hogarth held, exercised, and enjoyed, or might have held, exercised, and enjoyed in the said office, by virtue of or under the said recited letters patent of our said royal grandfather; and you are to insert in the said Bill all such apt clauses, directions, authorities, and powers as were contained in the said former grant of the said office, and such others as you shall think necessary for our service, and for making our grant hereby intended to the said William Hogarth most firm, valid, and effectual; and for so doing this shall be your warrant. "Given at our Court at St. James's, the 30th day of October 1761, in the second year of our reign. "By his Majesty's command, "HOLLES NEWCASTLE. "NORTH. "JAMES OSWALD. "_To our Attorney or Solicitor General._ "William Hogarth, Esq., Serjeant Painter of his Majesty's Works.--Office renewed." The following oracular prediction I found among his papers, in the handwriting of his friend Townley:-- "_From an old Greek Fragment._ "There was an ancient oracle delivered at Delphos which says that the source of beauty should never again be rightly discovered till a person should arise whose name was perfectly included in the name of Pythagoras; which person should again restore the ancient principle on which all beauty is founded. "Πυθάγορας PYTHAGORAS. "Ὄγαρϑ HOGARTH." THE VASE. "Is man no more than this? consider him well."--SHAKSPEARE. [Illustration: THE VASE.]