Note 104 — FABLES.
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This was, I suppose, our author's old foe, Villiers, Duke of Buckingham, the tardy progress of whose great buildings at Cleveden was often the subject of satire:
"Once more, says fame, for battle he prepares, And threatens rhymers with a second farce; But if as long for that as this we stay, He'll finish Cleveden sooner than his play." The Review.