Note 49 — AN ESSAY UPON SATIRE.
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Sir George Hewet was a coxcomb of the period, after whom Etherege is said to have modelled Sir Fopling Flutter's character:
Scarce will their greater grief pierce every heart, Should Sir George Hewit or Sir Car depart. Had it not better been, than thus to roam, To stay and tie the cravat string at home; To strut, look big, shake pantaloon, and swear With Hewit, "Damme, there's no action here!" Rochester's Farewell.
His pretensions to gallantry are elsewhere ridiculed:
Yet most against their genius blindly run, The wrong they chuse, and what they're made for shun; Thus Arlington thinks for state affairs he's fit, Hewit for ogling, C——ly for a wit. The Town Life.
And again,
May Hewet's billets doux successful prove, In tempting of her little Grace to love.
Sir George Hewet attended the Prince of Denmark when he joined the Prince of Orange.
Jack Hall, the rotten Uzza of "Absalom and Achitophel," (Vol. IX. pp. 331. 373.) He seems to have gone into opposition to the court with Sidley, his patron. There is a comical account given of a literary effort of his in one of the State Poems:
Jack Hall—————— ——————left town, But first writ something that he durst not own; Of prologue lawfully begotten, And full nine months maturely thought on; Born with hard labour and much pain, Ousely was doctor chamberlain.[50] At length, from stuff and rubbish picked, As bears' cubs into form are licked, } { When Wharton, Etherege, and Soame, { To give it their last strokes were come, { Those critics differed in their doom; Yet Swan[51] says, he admired it 'scaped, Being Jack Hall's, without being clapped.