_Lines on the Temple_ (Vol. iii., pp. 450. 505.).--In the _Gentleman's
Mag._ (Suppl. for 1768, p. 621.), the reviewer of a work entitled
"_Cobleriana, or the Cobler's Miscellany_, being a choice collection of
the miscellaneous pieces in prose and verse, serious and comic, by
Jobson the Cobler, of Drury Lane, 2 vols.," gives the following extract;
but does not state whether it belongs to the "new" pieces, or to those
which had been previously "published in the newspapers," the volume
being avowedly composed of both sorts:--
"_An Epigram on the Lamb and Horse, the two insignia of the
Societies of the Temple._
"The Lamb the _Lawyers'_ innocence declares,
The Horse _their_ expedition in affairs;
Hail, happy men! for chusing two such types
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.