The son was a handsomer man than the father, though he did not inherit his ability. His son, the third earl, was the critic and philosopher who wrote the _Characteristicks_. l. 12. _the Triple Bond_, the alliance of England, Holland, and Sweden against France in 1667, broken by the war with France against Holland in 1672. But Shaftesbury then knew nothing of the secret Treaty of Dover, 1670. l. 16. _Usurp'd_, in ed. 1 'Assum'd'. l. 25. _Abbethdin_ 'the president of the Jewish judicature', 'the father of the house of judgement'. Shaftesbury was Lord Chancellor, 1672-3. Page 234, l. 4. David would have sung his praises instead of writing a psalm, and so Heaven would have had one psalm the less. ll. 5, 6. Macaulay pointed out in his essay on Sir William Temple that these lines are a reminiscence of a couplet under the portrait of Sultan Mustapha the First in Knolles's _Historie of the Turkes_ (ed. 1638, p. 1370): Greatnesse, on Goodnesse loues to slide, not stand, and leaues for Fortunes ice, Vertues firm land. l. 15. The alleged Popish Plot, invented by Titus Oates, to murder the king and put the government in the hands of the Jesuits. Shaftesbury had no share in the invention, but he believed it, and made political use of it. Page 235, l. 4. This line reappears in _The Hind and the Panther_, Part I, l. 211. As W.D. Christie pointed out, it is a reminiscence of a couplet in _Lachrymæ Musarum_, 1649, the volume to which Dryden contributed his school-boy verses 'Upon the Death of the Lord Hastings': It is decreed, we must be drain'd (I see) Down to the dregs of a _Democracie_. This is the opening couplet of the English poem preceding Dryden's, and signed 'M.N.' i.e. Marchamont Needham (p. 81). 70. Burnet's History of His Own Time. Vol. i. (p. 100.) 'The portrait of this Duke has been drawn by four masterly hands: Burnet has hewn it out with his rough chissel; Count Hamilton touched it with that slight delicacy, that finishes while it seems but to sketch; Dryden catched the living likeness; Pope compleated the historical resemblance.'--Horace Walpole, _Royal and Noble Authors_, ed. 1759, vol. ii, p. 78. There is also Butler's prose character of 'A Duke of Bucks', first printed in Thyer's edition of the _Genuine Remains of Butler_, 1759, vol. ii, pp. 72-5, but written apparently about 1667-9. And there is a verse character in Duke's _Review_. Page 235, l. 11. _a great liveliness of wit_. In the first sketch Burnet wrote 'he has a flame in his wit that is inimitable'. It lives in _The Rehearsal_. His 'Miscellaneous Works' were collected in two volumes by Tom Brown, 1704-5. Page 236, l. 12. Compare Butler: 'one that has studied the whole Body of Vice.' l. 14. Sir Henry Percy, created Baron Percy of Alnwick in 1643. He was then general of the ordinance of the king's army. He joined the Queen's party in France in 1645. l. 15. _Hobbs_. For Burnet's view of Hobbes, see p. 246, ll. 21 ff. 71.