Biographia Britannica, article Etherege {George

E'en gentle George (flux'd both in longue and pursc)

Sbunning onc Snare, yet fell into a worse.

A Man may be reliev'd once in bis Life,

But who can be reliev'd that lias a Wife?

(Villicrs, dukc of Buckingham, A consolatory Epistle to Captain Julian the Muses News-Monger in his Confinement, dans ses Miscellaneous Works.)

Rochester, dans sa Session of the Poets (Œuvres, I, 133), rappelle aussi « genUe George ».