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Sir Fopling Flutter

N° 65. TUESDAY, MAY 15, 1711. Demetri, teque, Tigelli Discipularum inter jubeo plorare cathedras. HOR. 1 Sat. x. 90. Demetrins and Tigellins, know your place; Go hence, and whine among the school-boy...

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Sir George Etherege

ETHEREGE, sir George, one of the wits of Charles’s day, chiefly known as a writer of comedy, was born about 1636. He is supposed to have been for some time at Cambridge, then to... The post Sir George...

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Epilogue to The Man of Mode, Or Sir Fopling Flutter

EPILOGUE TO THE MAN OF MODE, OR SIR FOPLING FLUTTER [By Sir GEORGE ETHERIGE, 1676.] MOST modern wits such monstrous fools have shown, They seem not of heaven’s making, but their own. Those nauseous......

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Rakes

Nor are this vile and ignominious Race Content true Honour from his Breast to chace, Tuey shut his Eyes to beauteous Truth, and blind With giddy Notions his unpractis’d Mind. Soon as my easy... The...

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