Mr. Croker notices that Miss Lepell was called _Mrs._ according to the fashion of the time. It was the custom so to designate every single lady who was old enough to be married. Upon Richmond Lodge Swift showered some of his most pungent verses. He was there more than once when it was the scene of the ‘young court.’ Of these occasions he sang, after the princess had become Queen, to the following tune:-- Here went the Dean, when he’s to seek, To sponge a breakfast once a week, To cry the bread was stale, and mutter Complaints against the royal butter. But now I fear it will be said, No butter sticks upon his bread. We soon shall find him full of spleen, For want of tattling to the Queen; Stunning her royal ears with talking; His rev’rence and her highness walking. Whilst saucy Charlotte,[3] like a stroller, Sits mounted on the garden roller. A goodly sight to see her ride, With ancient Mirmont at her side. In velvet cap his head is warm, His hat, for shame, beneath his arm. Other poets were occasionally more audacious than Swift in appropriating domestic incidents in the princess’s family for their subjects. Early in 1723 one of them thus addresses an expected member of that family:-- Promis’d blessing of the year, Fairest blossom of the Spring, Thy fond mother’s wish;--appear! Haste to hear the linnets sing! Haste to breathe the vernal air, Come to see the primrose blow; Nature doth her lap prepare, Nature thinks thy coming slow. Glad the people, quickly smile Darling native of our isle. The gentle Princess Mary (subsequently the unhappy Princess of Hesse) cannot be said to have kept the linnets or the primroses waiting, the birth of this fourth daughter of the Prince and Princess of Wales having taken place on the 22nd of February 1723. During a large portion of the married life of George Augustus and Caroline, each was supposed to be under the influence of a woman, whose real influence was, however, overrated, and whose importance, if great, was solely so because of the undue value attached to her imaginary influence. Both those persons were of the ‘young court,’ at Leicester House and Richmond Lodge.