Had these talents, as they were
employed in the same cause, been vested in the same person, the
Duke of Guise must have yielded the palm. The partial resemblance,
in one point of their conduct, is stated by our poet, not to have
been introduced as an _intended_ likeness, betwixt the Duke of
Guise, and the Protestant Duke. We may observe, in the words of
Bertran,
The dial spoke not--but it made shrewd signs.
_Spanish Friar._
7. Alluding to a book, called "The Parallel," published by J.
Northleigh L.L.B. the same who afterwards wrote "the Triumph of the
Monarchy," and was honoured by a copy of verses from our author.
8. "Julian the Apostate, with a short account of his life, and a
parallel betwixt Popery and Paganism," was a treatise, written by
the Rev. Samuel Johnson, chaplain to Lord Russell, for the purpose
of forwarding the bill of exclusion, by shewing the consequences to
Christianity of a Pagan Emperor attaining the throne. It would
seem, that one of the sheriffs had mistaken so grossly, as to talk
of Julian the Apostle; or, more probably, such a blunder was
circulated as true, by some tory wit. Wood surmises, that Hunt had
some share in composing Julian. _Ath. Ox._ II. p. 729.]
9. This probably alludes to L'Estrange, who answered Hunt in the
"Lawyer Outlawed.
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