They ought to have preceded, in point of time, those entitled "Tarquin and Tullia," but were accidentally misplaced.
As nicknames are easily perpetuated, I observe, that these verses entailed upon the young statesmen, the names of Chit Sunderland, Chit Lory, &c. in the satires of the day. This administration came into office in the latter years of Charles II.'s reign. The satire turns on a comparison between them and their predecessors of what was called the Cabal. There is a parody on these lines in the "State Poems," in which they are applied to Stillingfleet.
ON
THE YOUNG STATESMEN.
Clarendon[86] had law and sense,
Clifford[87] was fierce and brave;
Bennet's[88] grave look was a pretence,