"We believe ... that Mr. Canning is not indisposed to join the present Cabinet, and may wish one or two of his particular friends to come in with him."
"I have led my ragamuffins where they are pepper'd: there's but three of my hundred and fifty left alive; and they are for the town's end, to beg during life."
(
Henry IV
., Part I. act v. sc. 3).
Townshend, the Bow Street officer, is described by Cronow (
Reminiscences
, vol. i. p. 286) as