FOOTNOTES:
[252] The Princess.
[253] Allen, Lord Bathurst.
[254] Sir George Lyttelton, who was out of favour with the Prince, made a parody on this copy of verses: two of the lines were,
No—’tis that all-consenting tongue,
That never puts me in the wrong.
[255] “This is a strange country, this England” (said his Royal Highness once); “I am told Doddington is reckoned a clever man; yet I got 5000l. out of him this morning, and he has no chance of ever seeing it again.”
[256] His house is since called Brandenburgh House.
[257] I found this song in an old pocket-book belonging to my father, who wrote it, as he told me himself, when he was a very young man, on a sister of Sir William Carew.
[258] This was written on a common woman whom Lord Bolingbroke took into keeping, and who, many years afterwards, sold oranges in the Court of Requests.