An idle, drunken, ignorant rake, without sense, truth, or honour.
[Footnote 7: Henry Sidney, afterwards Earl of Romney.

[T.S.]] P.764._Burnet_.

But, because he [Mr.Sidney] was lazy, and the business required an active man, who could both run about, and write over long and full accounts of all matters, I recommended a kinsman of my own, Johnstoune, whom I had formed, and knew to be both faithful and diligent .-- _Swift_.

An arrant Scotch rogue.
P.764._Burnet_.

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