* The only portrait of Dogget known is a small print, representing him dancing the Cheshire Round, with the motto "Ne sut or ultra crepidam
** Baddeley, the comedian, bequeathed a yearly sum for ever, to be laid out in the purchase of a Twelfth-cake and wine, for the entertainment of the ladies and gentlemen of Drury Lane Theatre.
How small an act of kindness will embalm a man's memory! Baddeley's Twelfth Cake ** shall be eaten, and Dogget's coat and badge * rowed for,
While Christmas frolics, and while Thames shall flow.
"And shall not," said Mr. Bosky, "a bumper flow, in spite of the '_Sin of drinking healths?_" ** to
Push round the rummer in winter and summer,
By a sea-coal fire, or when birds make a choir
The sea-coal burns, and the spring returns,
But man fades fast when his summer is past,
Winter snows on his cheeks blanch the rose--
A bumper shall flow to Mat, Thomas, and Joe
A sad pity that they had not for poor Mat
* "This day the Coat and Badge given by Mr. Dogget, will be rowed for by six young watermen, out of their apprenticeship this year, from the Old Swan at Chelsea."-- Daily Advertiser, July 31, 1753.
** The companion books to the "Sin of Drinking healths," were the "Loathsomness of Long Haire," and the "Unlove- liness of Love Locks," by Messrs. Praise-God-Barebones and Fear-the-Lord Barbottle.
|It would require a poetical imagination to paint the times when a gallant train of England's chivalry rode from the Tower Royal through Knight-rider Street and Giltspur Street (how significant are the names of these interesting localities, bearing record of their former glory!) to their splendid tournaments in Smithfield,--or proceeding down Long Lane, crossing the Barbican (the Specula or Watch-tower of Romanum Londinium), and skirting that far-famed street * where, in ancient times, dwelt the Fletchers and Bowyers, but which has since become synonymous with poetry--
* In Grub Street resided John Fox, the Martyrologist, and Henry Welby, the English hermit, who, instigated by the ingratitude of a younger brother, shut himself up in his house for forty-four years, without being seen by any human being. Though an unsociable recluse, he was a man of the most exemplary charity.