“That prattling Cloe fibs,” forsooth,

Demure and silent Cynthia cries;

But falsely! for can aught but truth

Flow from a tongue that never lies.

Thought.

Ah! how can a wife, she who bears his name, and shares, or ought to share, his lot, how can she ever be entirely effaced from the recollection of an honest man?

Duke of Bucking­ham.

George Villiers, second Duke of Buckingham, the dissolute favourite of Charles II. is thus described by Dryden in his poem of Absalom and Achitophel.