1752.—"Agreed ... that a present should be made the Nobab that might prove satisfactory."—In Long, 33.
1773.—
"And though my years have passed in this hard duty,
No Benefit acquired—no Nabob's booty."
Epilogue at Fort Marlborough, by W. Marsden, in Mem. 9.
1787.—
"Of armaments by flood and field;
Of Nabobs you have made to yield."
Ritson, in Life and Letters, i. 124.
1807.—"Some say that he is a Tailor who brought out a long bill against some of Lord Wellesley's staff, and was in consequence provided for; others say he was an adventurer, and sold knicknacks to the Nabob of Oude."—Sir T. Munro, in Life, i. 371.