In such stories Montague played a conspicuous part.

He contrived, it was said, to be at once as rich as Croesus and as riotous as Mark Antony.

His stud and his cellar were beyond all price.

His very lacqueys turned up their noses at claret.

He and his confederates were described as spending the immense sums of which they had plundered the public in banquets of four courses, such as Lucullus might have eaten in the Hall of Apollo.