359/460 The affection of Dorset for his wife and his strict fidelity to her are mentioned with great contempt by that profligate coxcomb Sir George Etherege in his letters from Ratisbon, Dec. 16/26 1688; Shadwell's Dedication of the Squire of Alsatia; Burnet, i. Some parts of Dorset's character are well touched in his epitaph, written by Pope: "Yet soft his nature, though severe his lay" and again: "Blest courtier, who could king and country please, Yet sacred keep his friendships and his ease."] [Footnote 318: Barillon, Jan. |