On the margin of these two prints Hogarth has inserted slight pen-and-ink sketches of "A Monk as a Windmill," "the Hopper of a Mill," etc. These are copied in the annexed plate of reference, and in a degree elucidated by the following passage in Burnet's Travels through Switzerland, etc., p. 232:—
"Over a popish altar at Worms is a picture one would think invented to ridicule transubstantiation. There is a windmill, and the Virgin throws Christ into the hopper, and he comes out at the eye of the mill all in wafers, which some priest takes up to give to the people. This is so coarse an emblem, that one would think it was too gross even for Laplanders; but a man that can swallow transubstantiation will digest this likewise."
Of painters presuming to explain the Trinity by a triangle, Hogarth and Swift thought alike:
"If God should please to reveal unto us this great mystery of the Trinity, or some other mysteries in our holy religion, we should not be able to understand them unless He would bestow on us some new faculties of the mind."—Swift.
"For eating and drinking we know the best rules,
Our fathers and mothers were blockheads and fools;
'Tis dress, cards, and dancing, alone should engage
This highly enlighten'd and delicate age."
[93] Since the publication of the first edition of this volume, a print of a larger size has been copied from the picture by Mr. T. Philips.