[Illustration: CAROLINE, PRINCESS OF WALES, AND HER INFANT SON, PRINCE GEORGE WILLIAM. _From an old Print._] The excitement created by this quarrel did not abate for many months. The Jacobites exultingly quoted the well-known text about a house divided against itself. Any number of skits and pasquinades, some of them exceedingly scurrilous, were circulated in connection with it. The most popular was that called _An Excellent New Ballad_, from which we have already quoted one verse, and may give a few more, omitting the coarsest:-- God prosper long our noble King, His Turks and Germans all; A woeful christ’ning late there did In James’s house befal. To name a child with might and mane Newcastle took his way, We all may rue the child was born, Who christ’ned was that day. His sturdy sire, the Prince of Wales, A vow to God did make, That if he dared his child to name His heart full sore should ake. But on the day straight to the Court This Duke came with a staff; Oh, how the Prince did stamp and stare, At which the Duke did laugh. Hereat the Prince did wax full wroth Ev’n in his father’s hall; “I’ll be revenged on thee,” he said, “Thou rogue and eke rascal.” The Duke ran straightway to the King, Complaining of his son; And the King sent three Dukes more To know what he had done. The King then took his grey goose quill And dipt it o’er in gall, And by Master Vice-Chamberlain He sent to him this scrawl: “Take hence yourself, and eke your spouse, Your maidens, and your men, Your trunks, and all your trumpery, Except your children.” Then up the street they took their way, And knocked up good Lord Grantham, Higledy-pigledy they lay, And all went rantum scantum. Now sire and son had played their part; What could befal beside?-- Why, the babe took this to heart, Kick’d up his heels, and died. God grant the land may profit reap From all this silly pother, And send these fools may ne’er agree Till they are at Han-o-ver. As the Prince of Wales was now forbidden to live in any of the royal palaces, it became necessary for him to set up a house for himself and his consort. He remained at Lord Grantham’s for a short time, and then took Savile House in Leicester Fields, and moved his effects thither from St. James’s. But Savile House was too small for his requirements, so he took the house adjoining, Leicester House, from Lord Gower, at a rent of £500 a year, established a communication between it and Savile House, and with the Princess of Wales took up his residence there on Lady Day, 1718. FOOTNOTES TO BOOK II, CHAPTER VII: [80] Coxe’s _Life of Walpole_. [81] _London Gazette_, 4th November, 1717.