Chapter XLIV: Act IV: Sc. 3

‘_Like the giddy sailor_,’ _etc._ Misquoted from _Richard
III._, Act III. Sc. 4.

294. ‘_Deep than loud._’ Cf. ‘Curses, not loud, but deep.’
_Macbeth_, Act V. Sc. 3.

295. _The following account._ See _ante_, pp. 179-80.

296. ‘_I would not have parted with it_,’ _etc._ _The Merchant of
Venice_, Act III. Sc. 1.

297. ‘_Exhaling to the sky._’ Cf. ‘No natural exhalation in the
sky.’ _King John_, Act III. Sc. 4.

_Madame Mainville Fodor._ Josephine Fodor-Mainvielle (b. 1793).
This was her first, or one of her first appearances in
London. She retired from the stage in 1833.

‘_Has her exits_,’ _etc._ _As You Like It_, Act II. Sc. 7.

298. ‘_Till the moon_,’ _etc._ _Paradise Lost_, IV. 607 _et seq._

‘_Hope told a flattering tale._’ An anonymous song set to music
by Paisiello.

_Mons. Drouet._ Louis François Philippe Drouet (1792-1873).

l. 29. _The Examiner_ continues: ‘_Drury-Lane._—A young lady
has appeared at this theatre in the character of _Cecilia_ in
the _Chapter of Accidents_: but from the insipidity of the
character in which she chose to appear, we know no more of
her powers of acting than before we saw her. Both her face
and voice are pleasing.’ The lady was Miss Murray. Sophia
Lee’s comedy _The Chapter of Accidents_ was produced in 1780.

_Mr. Cobham._ April 15, 1816. Thomas Cobham (1786-1842)
failed on this occasion, but became ‘a hero to transpontine
audiences.’

‘_Made of penetrable stuff._’ _Hamlet_, Act III. Sc. 4.

299. ‘_Unhousell’d_,’ _etc._ _Ibid._ Act I. Sc. 5.

_Sir Pertinax MacSycophant._ In Macklin’s _The Man of the
World_ (1781). Bibby appeared on April 16, 1816.

_Egerton._ Daniel Egerton (1772-1835), ‘long the performer of
“cruel uncles” and “flinty-hearted fathers”’ at Covent
Garden. He married Sarah Fisher, for whom see _ante_, p. 292.

300. _Miss Grimani._ Miss Grimani from Bath played Juliet, April 23,
1816.

‘_How silver sweet_,’ _etc._ _Romeo and Juliet_, Act II. Sc. 2.

‘_The midnight bell_,’ _etc._ _King John_, Act III. Sc. 3.

‘_Gentle tassel._’ ‘To lure this tassel-gentle back again.’
_Romeo and Juliet_, Act II. Sc. 2.

301. _Garrick’s Ode on Shakespear._ Written for the famous
Shakespeare Jubilee at Stratford in 1769.

‘_Vesuvius in an eruption_,’ _etc._ Gray, Letter to Warton,
August 8, 1749. See _Letters_ (ed. Tovey), I. 201.

‘_I was ready to sink for him_,’ _etc._ _Ibid._

302. l. 20. In _The Examiner_ Hazlitt continues as follows: ‘But any
one who chuses may see the celebration of the centenary of
Shakspeare’s death to-day, (which is Thursday) on Saturday
or on Tuesday next, at Covent-Garden Theatre. They kill
him there as often as the town pleases.——We cannot speak
favourably of either of the new after-pieces, _Who wants a
Wife?_ and _Pitcairn’s Island_. The one is contrived for Mr.
Liston to make foolish love in; and the other for Mr.
Smith to play that land-monster, a singing, swaggering,
good-natured, honest, blackguard English Jack Tar, a sort of
animal that ought never to come ashore, or as soon as it
does, ought to go to sea again.’

‘_Doubtless the pleasure_,’ _etc._ _Hudibras_, Part II., Canto
III., 1-2.

‘_Full volly home._’ Cf. ‘But rattling nonsense in full volleys
breaks,’ Pope, _An Essay on Criticism_, 628. Cf. _King Lear_,
Act V. Sc. 3, l. 174.

303. _Madame Sacchi._ Madame Sacchi’s ‘astonishing performances’ on
the tight rope were introduced ‘for the accommodation of the
crowds of applicants’ who desired to witness them.

‘_So fails_,’ _etc._ See _The Excursion_, Book VII., 975 _et
seq._

‘_Affecting a virtue._’ ‘Assume a virtue, if you have it not.’
_Hamlet_, Act III. Sc. 4.

‘_They two can be made one flesh._’ Cf. _Genesis_ ii. 24.

_Dame Hellenore._ _The Faerie Queene_, Book III. Canto X.

‘_Aggravated_,’ _etc._ _A Midsummer Night’s Dream_, Act I. Sc.
2.

304. ‘_There is some fury_,’ _etc._ _A New Way to Pay Old Debts_,