Benjamin being Benjamin Hoadley.
I have two other prints upon this subject, besides the three mentioned by J. F. In one which has the title "For Lambeth," the bishop in the most distant boat has dropt his oars, sits with his arms across, looks very sulky, and exclaims, "Damn my scull."
The other is entitled "Haw'y Haw'y L—b-th Haw'y." Three bishops, as in the others, are rowing towards Lambeth: a fourth, approaching in an opposite direction, is rowing "against tide." In the foreground are two groups. In one, two noblemen are addressing three competing bishops: "Let honour be the reward of virtue, and not interest." One bishop says: "I give it up till
next." Another holds a paper, inscribed "10,000l. for it." In the other group, two noblemen are promising to different bishops. Another bishop is fighting his way through boatmen; and two persons are running forward as candidates for an archdeaconry or dean of arches. Underneath are two lines:
"Sculls, sculls to Lambeth! see how hard they pull 'em!
But sure the Temple's nearer much than Fulham."
Temple alluding to Sherlock, Fulham to Gibson.
Underneath this print, some one, perhaps Horace Walpole, mistaking the date and the subject, has written:
"The man whose place they thought to take
Is still alive, and still a Wake."