LIFE OF MYTTON. 69 



allowable levity of style, inseparable from the chro- 

 nicling of the sayings and doings of such a character 

 as is before me ; and as one object is to display it in 

 every variety of colour — and the rainbow itself has 

 not more — I must here introduce a description of an 

 evening at Halston from my own pen, as published 

 originally in the " Sporting Magazine." As it com- 

 mences with an apology, I shall offer none here. 



" ' What Cato did, and Addison approved, cannot 

 be wrong,' said a learned and accomplished gentleman 

 of the last century, when he put a period to a miser- 

 able existence. Now, as the great essayist here 

 named introduced his friend Sir Roger's chaplain 

 to the world, perhaps I may be allowed to introduce 

 Mr. Mytton's. He is a very old acquaintance of 

 mine, and I know he will pardon me for doing so. 

 I cannot exactly say he is to his patron what Maecenas 

 was to Augustus, or what Falstaff was to Henry ; 

 but rather what Crispus was to the Roman Emperor. 

 Crispus lived with four of them, joked with all 

 of them, and quarrelled with none of them, though 

 their ears were perhaps more tender than their hearts. 

 The Halston Chaplain, however, is entitled to a place 

 in the ' Sporting Magazine,' having given birth to as 

 much sport as ever was seen in a race, a cock-pit, or 



