ard of industry is success. Our prudent and attentive youth is
now become partner with his master, and married to his daughter. The
sign, by which this circumstance is intimated, was at first inscribed
GOODCHILD and WEST. Some of Mr. Hogarth's city friends informing him
that it was usual for the senior partner's name to precede, it was
altered.

To show that plenty reigns in this mansion, a servant distributes the
remains of the table to a poor woman, and the bridegroom pays one of the
drummers, who, according to ancient custom, attend with their thundering
gratulations the day after a wedding. A performer on the bass viol, and
a herd of butchers armed with marrow-bones and cleavers, form an English
concert. (Madame Pompadour, in her remarks on the English taste for
music, says, they are invariably fond of every thing that is full in the
mouth.) A cripple with the ballad of Jesse, or the Happy Pair,
represents a man known by the name of Philip in the Tub, who had visited
Ireland and the United Provinces; and, in the memory of some persons now
living, was a general attendant at weddings. From those votaries of
Hymen who were honoured with his epithalamiums, he received a small
reward. To show that Messrs. West and Goodchild's habitation is near the
monument, the base of that stately column appears in the back-ground.
The inscription which until lately graced this structure, used to remind
every reader of Pope's lines,

Where London's column, pointing to the skies,
Like a tall bully, rears its head, and lies, &c.

The duke of Buckingham's epigram on this magnificent pillar is not so
generally known:

Here stand I,
The Lord knows why;
But if I fall--
Have at ye all!

A footman and butcher, at the opposite corner, compared with the other
figures, are gigantic; they might serve for the Gog and Magog of
Guildhall.

It has been said that the thoughts in this print are trite, and the
actions mean, which must be in part acknowledged, but they are natural,
and appropriate to the rank and situation of the parties, and to the
fashions of the time at which it was published.

[Illustration: INDUSTRY AND IDLENESS.

PLATE 6.

THE INDUSTRIOUS 'PRENTICE OUT OF HIS TIME & MARRIED TO HIS MASTER'S
DAUGHTER.]

INDUSTRY AND IDLENESS.

PLATE VII.

THE IDLE 'PRENTICE RETURNED FROM SEA, AND IN A GARRET WITH A COMMON
PROSTITUTE.

"The sound of a shaken leaf shall chase him." Leviticus, chap.