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 49^ COMPLETE PEERAGE More than Colebrook heaps of pelf,('') More than Elliot loves himself,('^) More than Alderman his gut, More than Hillsborough to strut, More than cullies love a jilt, More than Grosvenor horns well gilt; More than Dartmouth loves field preachers, More than Huntingdon her teachers. More than Carlisle those who cheat him, More than Long Tom those who treat him,(') More than Pomfret a lead mine More than Weymouth play and wine. More than fools at wits to nibble, More than Walpole loves to scribble, More than Lyttleton to write, More than blackleg March to bite, More than country squires their dogs, More than Mawbey loves his hogs,(^) More than demireps a spark. More than Martin a sure mark;^ More than Grafton loves his pimps. More than Devil loves his imps. More than Tories love the Stuarts, More than Whigs love all true hearts. Thus my fair, I love you more Than ever man loved fair before." (^) Sir George Colebrooke, Bt., M.P. for Arundel, chairman of the East India Company, head of the bank, Colebrooke, Lessingham is" Binns. He was supposed to be very wealthy, but his bank stopped payment 31 Mar. 1773, very shortly after these lines were circulated. ('') Sir Gilbert Elliot, father of the ist Lord Minto. ('^) Sir Thomas Robinson of Rokeby, on whom Lord Chesterfield wrote the epigram " Unlike my subject now shall be my song, It shall be witty and it shan't be long." (^) He is the Sir Joseph of the RoHiad, M.P. for Southwark, then a strong Wilkesite. He was the butt of both sides, being a frequent and rather grotesque speaker; he affected the pursuits of a country gentleman and took prizes for fat hogs. ('') Samuel Martin, secretary to the Treasury at the time of the prosecution of the North Briton; he challenged, fought, and wounded Wilkes in a duel, and was alleged by the latter's friends to have practised steadily at a target before sending the challenge.