CHARACTERS

OF THE

COURT.

A POEM.

WITH NOTES.

“Omne animi vitium tantò conspectius in se
"Crimen habet, quantò major, qui peccat, habetur."

Oxford:

JUVENAL.

"Could Laureat Dryden pimp and friar engage,
"Yet neither Charles nor James be in a rage;
"And I not strip the gilding off a knave,
"Unplaced-unpensioned-no man's heir or slave."

POPE.

"Are there no sins for satire's bard to greet?
"Stalks not gigantic vice in every street?
"Shall Peers and Princes tread pollution's path,
"And 'scape alike the law's and muse's wrath ?"

BYRON.