Note 467 — THE MEDAL. A SATIRE AGAINST SEDITION.
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It is alluded to in an occasional epilogue, by Otway, to "Venice Preserved," acted on the Duke's return, April 21, 1682:
Nail all your medals on the gallow's post, In recompence the original was lost; At these illustrious repentance pay, In his kind hands your humble offerings lay.
Duke also, in an epistle to Otway, talking of his retirement from the political world, declares,
I have forgot whatever there I knew, Why men one stocking tie with ribbon blue; Why others medals wear, a fine gilt thing, That at their breasts hangs dangling by a string.