. Zanga's character and speech are famous in history from their application to Benjamin Franklin, in Wedderburn's speech before the Privy Council (January, 1774) on the Whately Letters (Stanhope's
History of England
, vol. v. p. 327, ed. 1853):—
"I forg'd the letter, and dispos'd the picture,
I hated, I despis'd, and I destroy."
Note, in Dr. G. Butler's writing, in the bound volume of Speech-Bills presented by him to the Harrow School Library.