[ [24] Horace, Epis. ii. 2, 126.
[ [25] Charles II.'s flight from his Scottish Presbyterian subjects, at the end of 1650, to take refuge among his wild Highland supporters, was caused by the insolent invectives of the rigid Presbyterian clergymen, who preached long sermons at him, on his own wickedness and that of his father and mother, and made his life generally a burden.
[ [26] Hor. Od. iv. 12, 28.
[ [27] "Os homini sublime dedit."—Ovid, Met. i. 85.
[ [28] Cibber is pardonably vain throughout at the society he moved in. His greatest social distinction was his election as a member of White's. His admission to such society was of course the subject of lampoons, such as the following:—
"The Buffoon, An Epigram.
Don't boast, prithee Cibber, so much of thy State,
That like Pope you are blest with the smiles of the Great;
With both they Converse, but for different Ends,
And 'tis easy to know their Buffoons from their Friends."