CHARACTERS OF THE COURT. A POEM. WITH NOTES. "Omne animi vitium tantò conspectius in se "Crimen habet, quantò major, qui peccat, habetur." JUVENAL. Orford: PRINTED AND SOLD BY MUNDAY AND SLATTER, HIGH-STREET. 1816. 1 "Could Laureat Dryden pimp and friar engage, "And I not strip the gilding off a knave, "Are there no sins for satire's bard to greet? POPE. BYRON. CHARACTERS OF THE COURT. IN these our days, when vice and folly reign, To joys the turf affords, and generous steeds. When each young Lordling launching on the town, A Quarto publishes, and gains renown; *Thus Lord George G-nv-le, Lord D-ll-n, &c. &c.; who have all, as they respectively arrived at the age, I will not say of B |