As plainly shew they give the world no wipes;
For who dares say that suits are at a stand,
When two such virtues both go hand in hand?
No more let Chanc'ry Lane be endless counted,
Since they're by Lamb and Horse so nobly mounted."
The Italics, which I have copied, were, I suppose, put in by the reviewer, who adds, "Q. Whether the Lamb and Horse are mounted upon Chancery Lane, or two virtues, or happy men?" Poor man! I am afraid his Query has never been answered; for that age was not adorned and illustrated by any work like one in which we rejoice,—a work of which, lest a more unguarded expression of our feelings should be indelicate, and subject us to the suspicion of flattery, we will be content to say boldly, that, though less in size and cost, it is cotemporaneous with the Great Exhibition.
A TEMPLAR.
These lines are printed (probably for the first time) in the sixth number of The Foundling Hospital for Wit, 8vo.: Printed for W. Webb, near St. Paul's, 1749 (p. 73.). The learned author of Heraldic Anomalies (2nd edit. vol. i. p. 310.) says they were chalked upon one of the public gates of the Temple; but from the following note, preceding the lines in question, in The Foundling Hospital for Wit, this statement is probably erroneous:
"The Inner Temple Gate, London, being lately repaired, and curiously decorated, the following inscription, in honour of both the Temples, is intended to be put over it."
A MS. note, in a cotemporary hand, in my copy of The Foundling Hospital for Wit, states the author of the original lines to have been the "Rev. William Dunkin, D.D." The answer which follows it, is said to be by "Sir Charles Hanbury Williams."