Note 12 — William Hogarth: PAINTER, ENGRAVER, AND PHILOSOPHER. Essays on the Man, the Work, and the Time.
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Everybody seems to have had Latin verses, eulogistic or abusive, addressed to him in those days. Thus the “Sapphics” of Mr. Loveling, a young gentleman of the university, to the rigorous Middlesex Justice:—
“Pellicum, Gonsone, animosus hostis, Per minus castus Druriæ tabernas Lenis incedens, abeas Diones Æquus Alumnis!”
And so forth.