Note. The Duchess of Cleveland. ‘Her graceless grace’ of the Court of Charles II.
[213]. Alcibiades threw away a flute. See Plutarch’s Life of Alcibiades.
[213]. Ferdinand in the Tempest. Act III. 1.
[214]. Sergeant Atkinson. In Fielding’s Amelia, Book V. chap. 2.
Lord C——. Castlereagh.
Hatching vain empires. Paradise Lost, II. 378.
Voluminous and vast. Paradise Lost, II. 652.
[215]. Marquis Wellesley. Richard Cowley, Marquis Wellesley (1760–1842). Governor-General of India. He was made a Knight of the Garter and Foreign Minister on his return from Madrid whither he went as Ambassador in 1809.
Stores of ladies. Milton’s L’Allegro, 120.
Lord Erskine. Thomas Erskine (1750–1823), Advocate and Lord Chancellor.