70.
Burnet's History of His Own Time. Vol. i. (p. 100.)
'The portrait of this Duke has been drawn by four masterly hands: Burnet has hewn it out with his rough chissel; Count Hamilton touched it with that slight delicacy, that finishes while it seems but to sketch; Dryden catched the living likeness; Pope compleated the historical resemblance.'—Horace Walpole, Royal and Noble Authors, ed. 1759, vol. ii, p. 78.
There is also Butler's prose character of 'A Duke of Bucks', first printed in Thyer's edition of the Genuine Remains of Butler, 1759, vol. ii, pp. 72-5, but written apparently about 1667-9. And there is a verse character in Duke's Review.
Page 235, l. 11. a great liveliness of wit. In the first sketch Burnet wrote 'he has a flame in his wit that is inimitable'. It lives in The Rehearsal. His 'Miscellaneous Works' were collected in two volumes by Tom Brown, 1704-5.
Page 236, l. 12. Compare Butler: 'one that has studied the whole Body of Vice.'
l. 14. Sir Henry Percy, created Baron Percy of Alnwick in 1643. He was then general of the ordinance of the king's army. He joined the Queen's party in France in 1645.
l. 15. Hobbs. For Burnet's view of Hobbes, see p. 246, ll. 21 ff.
71.
Absalom and Achitophel. Second Edition. 1681. (ll. 543-68.)