Butchers good-breeding at a jerk,
And crucify (O Parricide and Turk!)
Poor Virtue and Morality, like Martyrs.”
He often returned to administer castigation to the Prince, whose profligacies were notorious, and when the heir-apparent was said to be suffering from a sprained ankle, he voiced the general opinion that the confinement was the result of a thrashing from Lord Yarmouth, whose wife had been insulted by “The First Gentleman of Europe.”
“Ye Princes, as you love your lives,
Ne’er meddle with your neighbours’ wives,
But keep your brittle hearts from tripping;
Lest some rude Lord, to scare beholders,
Should compliment your princely shoulders,
With such another royal whipping.