Note 47 — AN ESSAY UPON SATIRE.
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Mulgrave here alludes to some anecdotes of his own life and amours, which probably were well known at the time, but are now too obscure to be traced. He was three times married, and always to widows. His lordship is here pleased to represent himself as a gallant of the first order, skilled in all the arts of persuasion and conquest. But his contemporaries did not esteem him so formidable, at least if we may believe the author of a satire, called, "A Heroical Epistle from Lord Allpride to Doll Common;" a bitter and virulent satire on Mulgrave. He is thus described, in an epigram on Lord Allpride:
Against his stars the coxcomb ever strives, And to be something they forbid contrives. With a red nose, splay foot, and goggle eye, A ploughman's booby mien, face all awry, A filthy breath, and every loathsome mark, The punchinello sets up for a spark: With equal self-conceit he takes up arms, But with such vile success his part performs, That he burlesques the trade, and, what is best In others, turns, like Harlequin, to jest: So have I seen, at Smithfield's wonderous fair, When all his brother-monsters flourish there, A lubbard elephant divert the town, With making legs, and shooting of a gun. Go where he will, he never finds a friend, Shame and derision all his steps attend; Alike abroad, at home, i'the camp, and court, This knight o'the burning pestle makes us sport.
This seems to have been written by the offended Sir Car Scrope.