Part 3

In times so uncommon, so big with events, So hard on the poor, and so hurtful to trade, So fruitful with bunches of catchpenny-gents, When fortunes immense by Gass-lights are made, When Tunnels are carried quite under the Thames, And Hampstead and Highgate are each to be bor’d, When ev’ry Profession is teeming with schemes, And Cattle are free from the murrain insur’d; A plain honest Tradesman who keeps out of debt, Whose name is not seen in the London Gazette, May linger unnoticed, his labours unknown, Till Puff or Advertisement gives him the _Ton_. Now be it thus known to all Persons of Fashion, And others of Rank, Pretension, or Station, Or Box Lobby Loungers, or rich plodding Cits, Who live by their acres, or exist by their wits: And so it be known to the few who have spirit And means to call forth the exertions of merit-- Who kindly bestow their time and attention On the labours of Art and the works of Invention: That FANCY, a Goddess by Artists respected, In the PLACE of RATHBONE has a TEMPLE erected, And thither her Vot’ries are ask’d to repair, To lounge away time, or drive away care; There pleasing politeness invites at the door, Whose mystical Number is _Thirty_ and _Four_. The TEMPLE’s interior by _Fancy_ is grac’d With efforts of Art, and productions of Taste; Where Science and Genius have happily blended The things which for _shew_ and for _use_ are intended; There the Ladies will beautiful _Work Tables_ find, Or _Plateaus_, or _Cabinets_, form’d to their mind, Bedeck’d with _Medallions_, or finish’d with _Borders_, And varnish’d and polish’d according to orders; _Writing Desks_, _Netting Boxes_, _Tunbridge Tea Caddies_, For the Beaux pretty _Housewives_, and _Screens_ for the Ladies; Collections of _Prints_, and new _Publications_, With _Drawings_ and _Sketches_ of latest new Fashions; Designs rich and various, each fancy to suit, Of _Figures_, of _Insects_, of _Flowers_, and of _Fruit_, Of _Cattle_, of _Trees_, and of _Songsters_ that warble, With Articles fashion’d to imitate _Marble_; _Transparencies_ fitted to look like stain’d glass, And _Blinds_ which the long-fam’d Venetian surpass; Rich _Borders_ and _Papers_ for Walls or Partitions, And _Ovals_ and _Circles_ for Mathematicians; For the soft billet-doux _Pens_, _Paper_ and _Ink_, And Ladies of Taste may _dye_ with the _Pink_; There Soldiers with _Trophies_ may gladden their souls, And Sailors may quickly arrive at the _Poles_; There Ladies with _Colours_ may heighten their graces, And Loungers with _Bronze_ may replenish their faces; In the best-finish’d state _Bristol Boards_ are prepar’d; And there may be found each description of _Card_, For the Lady who visits, or to parties invites, And _Cards_ for the Clubs both at Brookes’s and White’s. In short, at this TEMPLE the Public will meet With Articles fanciful, useful, and neat, Which there will in tasteful profusion abound, And FULLER and FULLER will always be found.

FOOTNOTES:

[A] Reprinted from the cover of the original edition, published in 1813

[B] Reprinted from the original edition, published in 1813

[C] Reprinted from the cover of the original edition, published in 1813