Note 46 — HOGARTH ILLUSTRATED.

To show how fair an object for satire the painter has selected, and how properly he has hung up such a miscreant as an example for posterity to avoid, part of it is inserted:—

Here continueth to rot, the body of Francis Chartres; who, with an INFLEXIBLE CONSTANCY, and INIMITABLE UNIFORMITY of life, PERSISTED, in spite of AGE and INFIRMITIES, in the practice of EVERY HUMAN VICE, excepting PRODIGALITY and HYPOCRISY. His insatiable AVARICE exempted him from the first; his matchless IMPUDENCE from the second. Oh, indignant reader! think not his life useless to mankind; Providence connived at his execrable designs, to give to after ages a conspicuous proof and example of how small estimation is EXORBITANT WEALTH in the sight of God, by His bestowing it on the most UNWORTHY OF ALL MORTALS.