Will Wimble.
On the second of July, 1741, died at Dublin, Mr. Thomas Morecroft, “a baronet’s younger son, the person mentioned by the ‘Spectator’ in the character of Will Wimble.”
This notice is from the “Gentleman’s Magazine” for 1741, as also is the following:—
On the same day, in the same year, the earl of Halifax married Miss Dunck, with a fortune of one hundred thousand pounds. It appears that, “according to the will of Mr. Dunck, this lady was to marry none but an honest tradesman, who was to take the name of Dunck; for which reason his lordship took the freedom of the sadlers’ company, exercised the trade, and added the name to his own.”
(For the Every-Day Book.)
A SHORTE AND SWEETE SONNETT
ON THE SUBTILTIE OF LOVE
By Cornelius May.
From “the Seven Starres of Witte.”
You cannot barre love oute
Father, mother and you alle,
For marke mee he’s a crafty boy,
And his limbes are very smalle;
He’s lighter than the thistle downe,
He’s fleeter than the dove,
His voice is like the nightingale;
And oh! beware of love!
For love can masquerade
When the wisest doe not see;
He has gone to many a blessed sainte
Like a virgin devotee;
He has stolen thro’ the convent grate,
A painted butterfly,
And I’ve seene in many a mantle’s fold
His twinkling roguish eye.