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[Footnote 79: The gay, gallant St. Evremond, besides being naturally ugly, had a wen between his eye-brows. There is a fine picture of him and Hortense as Vertumnus and Pomona, in the Stafford gallery.]
[Footnote 80: The pictures of Miss Jennings are very rare. This one at Althorpe was copied for H. Walpole, and I have heard of another in Ireland. Miss Jennings was afterwards d.u.c.h.ess of Tyrconnel.]
[Footnote 81: Pope. One hates him for taking a thousand pounds to suppress this character of Atossa, and publis.h.i.+ng it after all; yet who for a thousand pounds would have lost it?]
[Footnote 82: See his declaration of love--"Je suis frere du Comte de Bedford; je commande le regiment des gardes," &c.]
[Footnote 83: The Princess Colonna and the d.u.c.h.esse de Mazarin.]
[Footnote 84: Clement Marot had composed a version of the Psalms, then very popular. See _Bayle_, and the Curiosities of Literature.]
