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The amazing web site of Shakespeare's Sonnets. The Cockpit Royal, by Hogarth.
HAKESPEARE'S ONNETS
This is part of the web site of Shakespeare's sonnets
PICTURE GALLERY.
William Hogarth 1697 - 1764.
The Cockpit Royal 1758
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chief characters represented are Lord Albemarle Bertie, Jackson, the
humpbacked jockey, and Nan Rawlings, a very ugly old woman, commonly
called Deptford Nan, and the Duchess of Deptford. She was a
famous cock feeder, and did the honours of the gentlemen's ordinary at
Northampton, while, in return, a single man was deputed to preside at
the table appropriated to the ladies. She was well known at
Newmarket and was a prominent character at all the great displays,
where the early village bird did salutation to his proprietors, after
fighting for possession of his own dungheap. For the rest, the
reader may observe that the motley concourse consists of peers,
pick-pockets, butchers, jockeys, ratcatchers, gamblers, sailors, and
others. The aristocratic sportsman, Lord Bertie, appears to have been the model man of the period. Hogarth delighted to honour him, for we find him introduced into "The March to Finchley," in which he is in attendance on a boxing match; while here he is represented as the president of a most respectable fraternity assembled in a cockpit. What rendered his lordship's passion for amusements of this nature singular was his being totally blind. In this place he is beset by steady friends, some of whom at the same instant bet him on the event of the battle. One, a lineal descendant of Filch, taking advantage of his loss of sight and negligence, endeavours to carry a banknote, deposited in our dignified gambler's hat, to his own pocket. Of this ungentleman-like attempt, his lordship is apprised by a ragged post-boy and an honest butcher, but so much engaged is he in the arrangement of his bets, that he cannot attend to their hints. |
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London Bridge As it was in Shakespeare's day, circa 1600. |
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London Bridge As it was in Shakespeare's day, circa 1600. |
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