Note 10 — CATALOGUE OF HOGARTH'S PRINTS.[1]
Reading edition
To this occurrence the following imperfect stanzas, transcribed from the hand-writing of Pope, are supposed to relate. They were found on the back of a page containing some part of his translation, either of the "Iliad" or "Odyssey," in the British Museum.
XIII. "Then he went to the side-board, and call'd for much liquor, And glass after glass he drank quicker and quicker; So that Heidegger quoth, Nay, faith on his oath, Of two hogsheads of Burgundy, Satan drank both. Then all like a —— the Devil appear'd, And strait the whole tables of dishes he clear'd; Then a friar, then a nun, And then he put on A face all the company took for his own. Even thine, O false Heidegger! who wert so wicked To let in the Devil——"