[In a broadside (1680), quoted by Mr. G. T. Drury in his edition of
     Waller’s Poems, 1893, satirical reference is made to the fashionable
     form of advice to the painters

               “Each puny brother of the rhyming trade
               At every turn implores the Painter’s aid,
               And fondly enamoured of own foul brat
               Cries in an ecstacy, Paint this, draw that.”

The series was continued, for we find “Advice to a Painter upon the Defeat of the Rebels in the West and the Execution of the late Duke of Monmouth” ("Poems on Affairs of State,” vol. ii., p. 148); “Advice to a Painter, being a Satire on the French King,” &c., 1692, and “Advice to a Painter,” 1697 ("Poems on Affairs of State,” vol. ii., p. 428).]

abusing the Duke of York and my Lord Sandwich, Pen, and every body, and the King himself, in all the matters of the navy and warr.  I am sorry for my Lord Sandwich’s having so great a part in it.  Then to supper and musique, and to bed.

15th.  Up and to the office, where my Lord Bruncker newly come to town, from his being at Chatham and Harwich to spy enormities:  and at noon I with him and his lady Williams, to Captain Cocke’s, where a good dinner, and very merry.  Good news to-day upon the Exchange, that our Hamburgh fleete is got in; and good hopes that we may soon have the like of our Gottenburgh, and then we shall be well for this winter.  Very merry at dinner.  And by and by comes in Matt.  Wren from the Parliament-house; and tells us that he and all his party of the House, which is the Court party, are fools, and have been made so this day by the wise men of the other side; for, after the Court party had carried it yesterday so powerfully for the Paper-Bill,

     [It was called “A Bill for raising part of the supply for his
     Majesty by an imposition on Sealed Paper and Parchment”—­B.]

yet now it is laid aside wholly, and to be supplied by a land-tax; which it is true will do well, and will be the sooner finished, which was the great argument for the doing of it.  But then it shews them fools, that they would not permit this to have been done six weeks ago, which they might have had.  And next, they have parted with the Paper Bill, which, when once begun, might have proved a very good flower in the Crowne, as any there.  So do really say that they are truly outwitted by the other side.  Thence away to Sir R. Viner’s, and there chose some plate besides twelve plates which I purpose to have with Captain Cocke’s gift of L100, and so home and there busy late, and then home and to bed.