To contemn them as clods and as carles,
Who are Graces by grace of such mothers
As brightened the bed of King Charles.”
Have the dukes of Buccleugh, Grafton, Richmond, and St. Albans forgotten and forgiven this humorous and playful allusion to their ancestresses, Lucy Waters, Lady Castlemaine, Louise de Querouaille, and Nell Gwynne, to whom they owe their dignities and estates?
A Word for the Poet.
(The Rebuke Parodic.)
[Mr. Swinburne’s latest effusion, which has been eagerly quoted by Conservative journals, appears in “Sea Song and River Rhyme,” and is entitled “A Word for the Navy.”]
The lords of thy fate and thy keepers,
O Swinburne, should padlock thy lips;