[124] 'Mighty name:' Pope, referring to his famous attack on Addison.
[125] 'Fathers:' Thomas Potter, Esq., a man of splendid abilities, was
disinherited by his father, the Archbishop of Canterbury, on account of
his dissolute life.
[126] 'Martin:' Samuel Martin, Esq., F.R.S., M.P. for Camelford; the
hero of 'The Duellist.'
[127] 'Webb:' Philip Carteret Webb. Esq., Solicitor to the Treasury.
[128] 'C----:' name not known.
[129] 'Pratt:' Charles Pratt, Earl Camden, Chief-Justice of the Common
Pleas, friendly to Wilkes. See Junius.
[130] 'Sigismunda;' a detestable miscreation of Hogarth's pencil,
admired by none but himself.
[131] 'The Scottish sun:' The addresses to the King which followed the
parliamentary approbation of the preliminary articles of peace in 1763,
were obtained by means equally dishonourable and corrupt.
THE DUELLIST.[132]
In Three Books.
BOOK I.
The clock struck twelve; o'er half the globe
Darkness had spread her pitchy robe:
Morpheus, his feet with velvet shod,
Treading as if in fear he trod,
Gentle as dews at even-tide,
Distill'd his poppies far and wide.
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