Note 105 — HOGARTH ILLUSTRATED. (continued 2)
Reading edition
In the second canto of a poem entitled The Gamblers, are the following notes:—
"By the cockpit laws, the man who cannot or who will not pay his debts of honour, is liable to exaltation in a basket."
"Stephen's exaltation in a basket, and his there continuing to bet though unable to pay, is taken from a scene in one of Hogarth's prints, humorously setting forth that there are men whom a passion for gaming does not forsake, even in the very hour that they stand proclaimed insolvents."