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OF THE COURT OF QUEEN ANNE.
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looked and talked like a very weak man; but it was said he spoke well in council.


He is a good country gentleman, a great assertor of the prerogatives of the monarchy and the church; a thin, tall, black, redfaced man, turned of 60 years old. Of great piety and charity.


Of very ordinary parts; married the witty lord Rochester's daughter, who makes him very expensive; a tall, thin, black man, about 35 years old. As much a puppy as ever I saw, very ugly, and a fop.


He is a bold man, and very happy in jests and repartees; and has often turned the humour of the house of commons, when they have designed to have been very severe. He is very fat, black, and turned of 60 years old. The vainest old fool I ever saw.


He is every way a plain man, yet took a great deal of pains to seem knowing and wise; every body pitied him, when the queen turned him out, for his seeming good nature, and real poverty; he is very fat, very expensive, and very poor; turned of 50 years old. A good plain humdrum.


He loves jests and puns [I never observed it], and

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