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HISTORY OF ENGLAND.

CnAP.

XI.

JliBS.

children. He had dressed her up in the skin of a wild beast,and then baited her for the public amusement.* He was re-moved; but he received from the private bounty of the magni-ficent Chamberlain a pension equal to the salary which hadbeen withdrawn. The deposed Laureate, however, as poor ofspirit as rich in intellectual gifts, continued to complainpiteously, year after year, of the losses which he had notsuffered, till at length his wailings drew forth expressions ofwell merited contempt from brave and honest Jacobites, whohad sacrificed every thing to their principles without deigningto utter one word of deprecation or lamentation.**

In the Royal household were placed some of those Dutchnobles who stood highest in the favour of the King. Bentinckhad the great office of Groom of the Stole, with a salary of fivethousand pounds a year. Zulestein took charge of the robes.The Master of the Horse was Auverquerque, a gallant soldier,who united the blood of Nassau to the blood of Horn, and whowore with just pride a costly sword presented to him by the

* See a poem entitled, A Votivo Tablet to the King and Queen.

** See Prior’s Dedication of his Poems to Dorset's son and successor,and Dryden’s Essay on Satire prefixed to the Translations from Juvenal.There is a bitter sneer on Dryden’s effeminate qucrulousness in Collier’sShort View of the Stage. In Blackmore’s Prince Arthur, a poem which,worthless as it is, contains some curious allusions to contemporary menand events, are the following lines:

“The poets* nation did obsequious waitFor the kind dole divided at his gate.

Laurus among the meagre crowd appeared, I

An old, revolted, unbelieving bard, >

Who thronged, and shoved, and pressed, and would be heard.*Sakil’s high roof, the Muses’ palace, rungWith endless cries , and endless songs ho sung.

To bless good Sakil Laurus would be first;

But Sakil’s prince and Sakil’s God he curst.

Sakil without distinction threw his bread,

Despised the flatterer, but the poet fed.”

I need not say that Sakil is Sackvillc, or that Laurus is a translationof the famous nickname Bayes.