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Updated: June 5, 2025
In answering him, I had no easy task to perform; for however clear might be my internal conviction of the groundlessness of his tears, and however strong my scepticism respecting the reality of what he had described, I nevertheless felt that his impression to the contrary, and his humility and terror resulting from it, might be made available as no mean engines in the work of his conversion from prodigacy, and of his restoration to decent habits, and to religious feeling.
The Duke of Buckingham, then the admitted leader of fashionable prodigacy, borrowed the aid of Samuel Butler, at whose "Hudibras" the world was still laughing, of Thomas Sprat, then on the high-road to those preferments which have given him an important place in history, of Martin Clifford, a familiar of the green-room and coffee-house, and concocted a farce ridiculing the person and office of the Laureate.
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