Has accomplish'd a service of plate not disgraced
By the work of a Goldsmith beside it.[43]
So your sketch superficially drawn on the plate,
It becomes you to fix in a permanent state,
Which involves a precise operation,
With a keen biting fluid, which eating its way—
As in other professions is common they say—
Has attain'd an artistical station.
And it's, oh! that some splenetic folks I could name
If they must deal in acids would use but the same,