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."