| Show the ignobly george IV then there was the precious regent what a crea creature I 1 good men and bad men unite in saying baying that he was absolutely without a virtue the shrewd calculating greville Grevl lle described him in words that burn tho the great duke his bla chief subject uses language of dry scorn the king could only act the part of gentleman tor for ten minutes at a time and we find the common est eat satellites of the court despised the wicked who wore the crown of england faithless to women faithless to men a coward a liar ilar a mean and groveling cheat gecorve IV nevertheless clung to a belief in his bis own virtues and if we study the account of his bis farcical progress through scotland we find that he ha imagined himself to bo be a useful and genuinely kingly personage no man except perhaps philippe egalite was ever BO contemn ed and bated and until his death he ha imagined hlin himself delf tc be a good mail runciman sidelights sidelight |
