In the words of the DNB, "Dorset was a dissolute and extravagant man of fashion." He lived the public life of an 18c aristocrat--from Westminster to Christ Church to the Grand Tour to Whig politics, with a healthy dose of arts patronage, mistresses, a financially prudent marriage, and death in his late fifties. And then there's a single piece of cynical pastoral (the shepherds praise their mistresses only to learn that each mistress has slept with the other shepherd) attributed to him in the 1734 GM. Authorized? Unauthorized? What's it doing there?; http://www.bodley.ox.ac.uk/cgi-bin/ilej/image1.pl?item=page&seq=1&size=…