CHARLES, LORD HALIFAX [AFTERWARDS EARL OF HALIFAX].
Macky. He is a great encourager of learning and learned men, is the patron of the muses, of very agreeable conversation, a short fair man, not 40 years old.—Swift. His encouragements were only good words and dinners; I never heard him say one good thing, or seem to taste what was said by another.
CHARLES, EARL OF DORSET.
Macky. One of the finest gentlemen, in England, in the reign of King Charles II.; of great learning [Swift. small, or none], extremely witty, and hath been the author of some of the finest poems in the English language, especially satire.... One of the pleasantest companions in the world [Swift. not of late years, but a very dull one], when he likes his company.
RICHARD, EARL RIVERS.
Macky. He was one of the greatest rakes in England in his younger days, but always a lover of the constitution of his country; is a gentleman of very good sense, and very cunning.—Swift. An arrant knave in common dealings, and very prostitute.
ARNOLD, EARL OF ALBEMARLE.
Macky. He was King William's constant companion in all his diversions and pleasures.—Swift. Very infamous pleasures.
ALGERNON, EARL OF ESSEX.
Macky. Is son to that earl whose throat was cut in the Tower.—Swift. Cut his own throat.