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OUT OF DATE, &c felicità. Lord Pembroke, who well knew no time was to be lost, and ever fond of a frolic, especially when un tour d'amour, while the audience were all waiting for he pr ance, his Lordship only waited till she was dressed, all expectation, when, instead of seeing her “fantastic toe" on the boards, she had stepped into his Lordship's carriage, which was in readiness to take her away to Florence, leaving the Italians to swear cose petto di Bacco, questo poco d'Inglese. Pleased as he was with this adventure, having outwitted the mother, and the disappointed bidders, supplanting them, at his return to England, though this might have been considered merely a theatrical false step, another that followed soon after was a far different step, though a fashionable one then, which has lasted to this day, and at the time made not a little noise in the gay world Miss Hunter, who was the general admiration of every one, Lord Pembroke, though then a Benedict, ran away with her; the consequence was, a son, who, after, was my schoolfellow and crony at Eton, and went by the name of Repkombe (the letters of his father's name), afterwards changed to Montgomery, and died a captain in the navy. This elopement filled the newspapers with anecdotes of his Lordship's amours, mentioning the Signora Crevelli, and the following lampoon, which I perfectly remember hearing many years ago, and only lately repeated to me, as my father's name was mentioned, and coupled with Lord Pembroke's, it will show the lessons of the latter were not confined to nding in a house only With Angelo, Pembroke had taken much pains To keep a good seat, and manage his reins But to ride this Young Hunter, he found it a hardship, For she swallowed the bit, and ran off with his Lordship. xxxiv