[60] In the "Mémoires de mon Temps" we read: "Il (le roi) manquait entièrement de l'application, mais avait beaucoup d'esprit, qui était très vif même, avait la repartie extrêmement prompte, très gaie, fort bonne mémoire, en un mot, un jeune homme charmant, qu'ou ne put qu'aimer.... Il avait une passion démesurée de connaitre des femmes," &c.
[61] "Mémoires de mon Temps," p. 49.
[62] "Memoirs of an Unfortunate Queen."
[63] Brown's "Northern Courts," vol. i.
[64] There is not the least truth in this scandal, I am bound to add, on the principle of giving even Clootie his due.
[65] "H. Walpole's Letters," vol. v. pp. 121-123.
[66] Now-a-days it is exactly vice versâ: first ball, and then supper.
[67] "Letters of H. Walpole," vol. v. pp. 128, 129.
[68] Brown's "Northern Courts," vol. i. p. 62.
[69] I have said that these lines were the worst ever written, but I retract. The very worst will be found in a poem called The Masquerade, inscribed to the King of Denmark. Here is a specimen:—