Rowlandson the Caricaturist; a Selection from His Works. Vol. 2 by Joseph Grego

On she came--such as I saw her in my dream. Grace was in all her steps--heaven in her eye; In every gesture dignity and love.--MILTON. A slipshod and tailorlike-looking old scarecrow, with spectacles on nose, and wearing a scarlet nightcap, is viewing with idiotic rapture the advent of a fat, inebriated, and dishevelled bacchante of mature charms, who, with a decanter in one hand and a glass in the other, is staggering into the chamber, to the amusement of a pretty servant-maid outside. The ancient dotard is making a parody on the quotation: 'On she came--such as I saw her in my dream. _Grease_ was in all her steps--Geneva in her hand; and every gesture reeling ripe for fun!' _Circa 1810._ _Cries of London._ Thirty plates.