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Others take "rerum" of the actual statues, "Here objects have sympathy for us." Tennyson, of course, inclined to the wider rendering when he wrote, in his "Ode on Virgil," of "the sense of tears in mortal things."

Page 84, line 3. "Wink and shut our apprehensions up." From Marston's "Antonio's Revenge," prologue, included by Lamb in the Dramatic Specimens. Page 84, line 6. With Dr. Swift. Dr. Swift, of course, wrote nothing of the kind. His determination to do the opposite thing is nowhere more strikingly expressed than in the letter to Pope of September 29, 1725. Lamb may have had in mind Pope's lines in the Dunciad, I., 19-23 :—

O thou! whatever title please thine ear,
Dean, Drapier, Bickerstaff or Gulliver!
Whether thou choose Cervantes' serious air,
Or laugh and shake in Rab'lais' easy chair,
Or praise the court, or magnify mankind-!

Page 84, line 24.

page 430.

Page 85, line 12.

"Election Entertainment." See plate opposite

The "eye of mind." See the quotation above, from Shakespeare's "Rape of Lucrece."

Page 85, line 22. Doddingtonian. A word drawn by Lamb from the career of George Bubb Dodington, Lord Melcombe (1691-1762), a dandy, wit and influential Parliamentary man in his day, satirised by Pope.

Page 86, line 9. Sir Hugh Evans. In "The Merry Wives of Windsor."

Page 86, line 13. "Judith." Judith, 1764, by Thomas Augustine Arne (1710-1778). The rage for sacred oratorios in this country began during Handel's settlement here (1710-1757). His first English oratorio, Esther, was produced in 1720. The Messiah was first given in London in 1743. For the third plate of the " Four Groups of Heads " see opposite page 432. Page 86, line 16.

Page 86, line 21.

tram Shandy.

Page 86, line 27.

"Music yet was young."

When music, Heavenly Maid, was young.

Collins, "Ode on the Passions," first line.

Uncle Toby and Mr. Shandy. In Sterne's Tris

Beer Street. See plate opposite page 436.

Page 86, fourth line from foot. Tadium quotidianarum formarum.

Tædet cotidianarum harum formarum.

(These daily rules annoy me.)

Page 87.

Terence, "Eunuchus," 297.

ON THE CUSTOM OF HISSING AT THE THEATRE.

The Reflector, No. III., 1811., Not reprinted by Lamb.

Lamb omits to say that he joined in the hissing of his farce, "Mr. H.," on the unhappy night of December 10, 1806.

In its ill fortune

he seems always to have taken a kind of humorous sympathetic pride.

When he printed the play at the end of his Works, 1818, he prefixed a quotation from Hazlitt's essay on "Great and Little Things," of which this is a portion:

Mr. H.-thou wert DAMNED. Bright shone the morning on the play-bills that announced thy appearance, and the streets were filled with the buzz of persons asking one another if they would go to see Mr. H.- ——, and answering that they would certainly; but before night the gaiety, not of the author, but of his friends, and the town, was eclipsed, for thou wert DAMNED!

Writing to Manning concerning the play's failure, Lamb said :

"Damn 'em, how they hissed! It was not a hiss neither, but a sort of a frantic yell, like a congregation of mad geese, with roaring sometimes, like bears, mows and mops like apes, sometimes snakes, that hiss'd me into madness. 'Twas like St. Anthony's temptations. Mercy on us, that God should give his favourite children, men, mouths to speak with, to discourse rationally, to promise smoothly, to flatter agreeably, to encourage warmly, to counsel wisely, to sing with, to drink with, and to kiss with, and that they should turn them into mouths of adders, bears, wolves, hyenas, and whistle like tempests, and emit breath through them like distillations of aspic poison, to asperse and vilify the innocent labours of their fellow-creatures who are desirous to please them!"

Page 87, line 7.

That memorable season, 1806-1807. Lamb here exaggerates. It is true that ten new pieces were tried at Drury Lane in the season mentioned; but five were successful, and Monk Lewis's "Adelgitha," the only tragedy, could hardly be called a failure. Of the remaining four plays which failed, Holcroft's "Vindictive Man" was the most notable. See below.

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Cade. Dost thou use to write thy name? or hast thou a mark to thyself, like an honest plain-dealing man?

Clerk of Chatham. Sir, I thank God, I have been so well brought up that I can write my name.

All. He hath confessed: away with him! he's a villain and a traitor.
Cade. Away with him, I say! hang him with his pen and ink-horn about his neck.
II. Henry VI.," Act IV., Scene 2, lines 109-117.

Page 87, line 18. The "summum jus, height of legality is the height of injustice." I., 10, 33.

summa injuria." "The From Cicero, De Officiis,

Page 87, line 19. "The Vindictive Man." This was the comedy by Thomas Holcroft, Lamb's friend, the failure of which occurred a few nights before that of "Mr. H." Lamb describes the luckless performance in a letter to Manning dated December 5, 1806.

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Page 87, line 29. "Our nonsense did not. suit their nonsense.” From Burnet's History of His Own Times, Vol. II.: "He [Charles II.] told me he had a chaplain that was a very honest man, but a very great blockhead, to whom he had given a living in Suffolk, that was full of that sort of people: he had gone about among them from house to house, though he could not imagine what he could say to them, for, he said, he was a very silly fellow, but that he believed his nonsense

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