[7] After a successful masquerade, he has been known to give away several hundred pounds at a time. "You know poor objects of distress better than I do," he would frequently observe to Mr. _Way_, "Be so kind as to give away this money for me." This well-known liberality, perhaps, contributed much to his carrying on that diversion with so little opposition as he met with. [8] _Pope_ (Dunciad, I. 289.) calls the bird which attended on the goddess "--------------a monster of a fowl, Something betwixt a _Heidegger_ and owl." and explains _Heidegger_ to mean "a strange bird from _Switzerland_, and not (as some have supposed) the name of an eminent person, who was a man of parts, and, as was said of _Petronius_, Arbiter Elegantiarum." The author of _The Scandalizade_ has also put the following description of our hero into the mouth of _Handel_: "Thou perfection, as far as e'er nature could run, Of the ugly, quoth _H--d-l_, in th' ugliest baboon, Human nature's, and even thy Maker's disgrace, So frightful thy looks, so grotesque is thy face! With a hundred deep wrinkles impress'd on thy front, Like a map with a great many rivers upon't; Thy lascivious ridottos, obscene masquerades, Have unmaided whole scores ev'ry season of maids." _Fielding_ also has introduced him in the Puppet-show, with which the _Author's Farce_ (acted at the _Haymarket_ 1729), concludes, under the title of _Count Ugly_. "_Nonsense._ Too late, O mighty Count, you came. _Count._ I ask not for myself, for I disdain O'er the poor ragged tribe of bards to reign. Me did my stars to happier fates prefer, Sur-intendant des plaisirs d'_Angleterre_. If masquerades you have, let those be mine, But on the Signor let the laurel shine. _Tragedy_. What is thy plea? Half written? _Count_. No nor read. Put it from dulness any may succeed, To that and nonsense I good title plead, Nought else was ever in my masquerade."