text: " Lord Surrey (afterwards Duke of Norfolk ) a prodigious reformer--a profession which however did not prevent him from constantly dabbling in the intrigues of electioneering--had harangued against him at Hereford while Scott retorted at Weobly by smartly saying--"That though then unknown to them he hoped he should entitle himself to more of their confidence than if being the son of the first Duke of England he had held himself out to them as a reformer whilst riding as the Earl of Surry rode into the first town of the county drunk upon a cider-cask and talking in that state of _reform_!" Lord Surrey had been his client and on meeting him in France afterwards good-humouredly said--"I have had enough of meddling with you; I shall trouble you no more