Ducket, L. Wolsted, Tho.
Bentley, and other obscure persons.--_P_.
[111] 'Sappho:' Lady M.W. Montague.
[112] 'Welsted:' accused Pope of killing a lady by a satire.
[113] 'Budgell:' Budgell, in a weekly pamphlet called _The Bee_,
bestowed much abuse on him.
[114] 'Except his will:' alluding to Tindal's will, by which,
and other indirect practices, Budgell, to the exclusion of the next
heir, a nephew, got to himself almost the whole fortune of a man
entirely unrelated to him.--_P_.
[115] 'Curlls of town and court:' Lord Hervey.
[116] 'Noble wife:' alluding to the fate of Dryden and Addison.
[117] 'An oath:' Pope's father was a nonjuror.
[118] Curll set up his head for a sign.
[119] His father was crooked.
[120] His mother was much afflicted with headaches.
[121] 'Fortescue:' Baron of Exchequer, and afterwards Master of
the Mint.
[122] 'Fanny:' Hervey.
[123] 'Falling horse:' the horse on which George II. charged at
the battle of Oudenarde.
[124] 'Shippen:' the only member of parliament Sir R. Walpole
found incorruptible.
[125] 'Lee:' Nathaniel, a wild, mad, but true poet of Dryden's
day.
[126] 'Budgell:' Addison's relation, who drowned himself in the
Thames.
[127] 'And he whose lightning:' Charles Mordaunt, Earl of
Peterborough, a man distinguished by the rapidity of his military
movements--a petty Napoleon.
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