King's Mistress, Queen's Servant: The Life and Times of Henrietta Howard by Tracy Borman

King's Mistress, Queen's Servant: The Life and Times of Henrietta Howard by Tracy Borman

Author:Tracy Borman [Borman, Tracy]
Language: eng
Format: epub, mobi
Publisher: Random House
Published: 2010-12-14T23:00:00+00:00


To serve a tasteless Court twelve years in vain!

Fain would I think our female friend [Henrietta] sincere,

’Till Bob [Sir Robert Walpole], the poet’s foe, possess’d her ear.

Did female virtue e’er so high ascend,

To lose an inch of favour for a friend?

Say, had the Court no better place to choose

For thee, than make a dry-nurse of thy Muse?

How cheaply had thy liberty been sold,

To squire a royal girl of two years old:

In leading strings her infant steps to guide,

Or with her go-cart amble by her side!



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