[164] "Miss Chudleigh's dress or rather undress was remarkable. She was Iphigenia for the sacrifice, but so naked the high priest might easily inspect the entrails of the victim. The maids of honour, not of maids the strictest, were so offended that they would not speak to her."—Mrs. Montague's Letters.
"O Bute! If, instead of contempt, and of odium,
You wish to obtain universal eulogium,
From your breast to your gullet transfer the blue string,
Our hearts are all yours at the very first swing."
The New Foundling Hospital for Wit.
[166] Letters of Philip Dormer Stanhope, Earl of Chesterfield.
[167] William Robertson, historian (1721-1793).
[168] Huish: Public and Private Life of George the Third.
[169] David Mallet (1705?-1765), the author of some poems and tragedies, was for some time assistant-secretary to Frederick, Prince of Wales.
[170] Arthur Murphy (1727-1805), the biographer of Garrick, and the editor of the works of Fielding and Johnson.
[171] James Macpherson (1736-1796), the alleged translator of Ossianic poems.