" "My girl gives me great prospect of satisfaction, but my young rogue of a son is the most ungovernable little rake that ever played truant," Lady Mary wrote to Lady Mar in July, 1727, when the boy was fourteen and the girl nine years old.

Sirrah wag, this rogue was son and heir to Antony Now-now and Blind Moon.

Let her smite and utterly confound Black Ivo, who (as oft I've told theemoreover thine eyes are sharp), is but a rogue high-born, fitter for gallows than ducal crown, even as this most unsavoury Gurth was a rogue low-born.

But such is the case; since, partly through my instrumentality, that enterprising individual has been located in their vicinity, where diamonds are not to be had for the asking, and the greatest rogue is not a Baron.

Sirrah wag, this rogue was son and heir to Antony Now-now and Blind Moon.

')Happy rogue of a coachman, hadst thou known whose notice thou didst engage, and whom thou mightest have obliged!It was the divine Clarissa Harlowe at whom thou gazest!Mine own Clarissa Harlowe!But it was well for me that thou wert as undistinguishing as the beasts thou drovest; otherwise, what a wild-goose chace had I been led?

That merry rogue was the only person in all Alcira who entered her house.

Rogue and no rogue, is the Republic's motto.

Thieves and rogues are like moths in blankets: bring the sun to shine on them, and they can neither live nor breed.