The Second Conqueror of the Norman race,
Knights to his arms did yield, and ladies to his face.
Old Tyburn’s glory, England’s bravest thief:
Duval, the ladies’ joy: Duval, the ladies’ grief.
It must be admitted that the accounts of St. Paul’s, Covent Garden, do not mention this monument.
It is probable that Duval did really introduce gentler methods into the practice of robbery. The author of “Hudibras” in a “Pindaric Ode” claims this merit and one other for Duval:—
Taught the wild Arabs on the road
To act in a more gentle mode:
Take prizes more obligingly than those
Who never had been bred filous