[299] ] Farquhar’s Beaux’ Stratagem, act iii. sc. 3, 1706.

[300] ] Memoir, prefixed to Leigh Hunt’s edition of Congreve’s works.

[301] ] Cunninghame’s History of Britain from the Revolution to the Hanover Succession.

[302] ] Farquhar’s The Constant Couple, or a Trip to the Jubilee, act v. sc. 1, 1700. M. Francisque Michel, in his Histoire du Commerce et de la Navigation à Bordeaux, clearly establishes that from the beginning to the middle of the eighteenth century all the best growths of the Médoc were bought and shipped for England. It was not until after 1755 that any went to Paris.

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‘Vos, ô Britanni (fœdera nam sinunt

Incœpta pacis) dissociabilem

Tranate pontum. Quid cruento

Perdere opes juvat usque Marte.

Lætis Remensam quam satius fuit