Note 206 — NOTES ON ANNUS MIRABILIS.
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The wits of that age, who laughed at every thing, made themselves very merry with this accident. Denham exhorts the painter thus:
But most with story of his hand and thumb, Conceal, as honour would, his grace's bum, When the rude bullet a large collop tore Out of that buttock never turned before; Fortune, it seems, would give him by that lash Gentle correction for his fight so rash; But should the Rump perceive't, they'd say that Mars Has thus avenged them upon Aumarle's ——.
The bard elsewhere gives his grace the admonition,
Guard thy posteriours, George, ere all be gone; Though jury-masts, thou'st jury-buttocks none. Instructions to a Painter, part 2d.