'The portrait of this Duke has been drawn by four masterly hands:
Burnet has hewn it out with his rough chissel; Count Hamilton touched
it with that slight delicacy, that finishes while it seems but to
sketch; Dryden catched the living likeness; Pope compleated the
historical resemblance.'--Horace Walpole, _Royal and Noble Authors_,
ed. 1759, vol. ii, p. 78.
There is also Butler's prose character of 'A Duke of Bucks', first
printed in Thyer's edition of the _Genuine Remains of Butler_, 1759,
vol. ii, pp. 72-5, but written apparently about 1667-9. And there is a
verse character in Duke's _Review_.
Page 235, l. 11. _a great liveliness of wit_. In the first sketch
Burnet wrote 'he has a flame in his wit that is inimitable'. It lives
in _The Rehearsal_. His 'Miscellaneous Works' were collected in two
volumes by Tom Brown, 1704-5.
Page 236, l. 12. Compare Butler: 'one that has studied the whole Body
of Vice.'
l. 14. Sir Henry Percy, created Baron Percy of Alnwick in 1643. He
was then general of the ordinance of the king's army. He joined the
Queen's party in France in 1645.
l. 15. _Hobbs_. For Burnet's view of Hobbes, see p. 246, ll. 21 ff.
71.