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Occasionally, when a real scent is forthcoming, the hounds can run right away from the field; but as a rule they are shamefully over-ridden. The fact is that in the hunting field, as elsewhere, John Wolcot's epigram, written a hundred years ago, exactly hits the nail on the head: "What rage for fame attends both great and small! Better be d d than mentioned not at all."
George the Third had indeed no vices, unless a certain parsimony may be dignified by that name, but he had many foibles of the kind that is more useful to the satirist than even vice. Wolcot's extreme coarseness, his triviality of subject, and a vulgarity of thought which is quite a different thing from either, are undeniable. This satire Wolcot could apply with remarkable width of range.
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