[165] This thought might possibly be suggested by one of Shakspeare's witches:
"Sleep shall neither night nor day
Hang upon his pent-house lid,
He shall live a man forbid," etc.
How admirable a contrast is formed by Robert Lloyd's description of an opposite character!
"Dull folly,—not the wanton wild,
Imagination's younger child,
Had taken lodgings in his face,
As finding that a vacant place."
[166] "Little did the sportive satirist imagine that the power of pleasing was so soon to cease in both! Hogarth died in four weeks after the publication of this poem, and Churchill survived him but nine days. In some lines which were printed in November 1764, the compiler of these anecdotes took occasion to lament that