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417. ‘_Are embowelled_,’ _etc._ Burke, _Reflections on the
Revolution in France_ (_Select Works_, ed. Payne, II. 101).

_The Upholsterer._ Cf. _ante_, p. 96.

‘_A counterfeit presentment._’ _Hamlet_, Act III. Sc. 4.

418. ‘_To relish_,’ _etc._ Cf. _ante_, p. 402.

419. ‘_Unfeathered, two-legged thing._’ Dryden, _Absalom and
Achitophel_, I. 170.

‘_You may wear_,’ _etc._ _Hamlet_, Act IV. Sc. 5.

‘_He sits in the centre_,’ _etc._ _Comus_, 382-3.

420. _Mr. Wordsworth’s hankering after the drama._ Wordsworth’s
tragedy, _The Borderers_, composed in 1795-6, and soon
afterwards refused by the Covent Garden management, was not
published till 1842.

‘_The daily intercourse_,’ _etc._ Quoted vaguely from
Wordsworth’s _Lines composed a few miles above Tintern
Abbey_.

note. Joanna Baillie (1762-1851), whose _Plays on the Passions_
had appeared in 3 vols. 1798-1812.

421. ‘_Like a wild overflow_,’ _etc._ Beaumont and Fletcher,
_Philaster_, Act V. Sc. 3.

‘_’Tis three feet long_,’ _etc._ Wordsworth, _The Thorn_, (l.
33), as published in _Lyrical Ballads_ (1798).

422. ‘_What? if one reptile_,’ _etc._ _Remorse_, Act III. Sc. 2.

423. _The Hebrew._ By George Soane (1790-1860).

‘_I had as lief_,’ _etc._ _Hamlet_, Act III. Sc. 2.

‘_Instinct with fire._’ _Paradise Lost_, II. 937.

_Disjecta_ [disjecti] _membra poetae._ Horace, _Satires_, I. 4,
62.

425. ‘_His affections_,’ _etc._ _Hamlet_, Act III. Sc. 1.

‘_Holds sovereign sway._’ _Macbeth_, Act I. Sc. 5.

‘_A far cry to Lochiel._’ ‘It’s a far cry to Lochow.’ See _Rob
Roy_, note to chap. 29.

‘_Hitherto shalt thou come_,’ _etc._ _Job_, xxxviii. 11.

‘_Like kings_,’ _etc._ Pope, _An Essay on Criticism_, 64-5.

427. ‘_Like to that sanguine flower_,’ _etc._ _Lycidas_, 106.

‘_Unkindness_,’ _etc._ _Othello_, Act IV. Sc. 2.

_Three Weeks after Marriage._ Arthur Murphy’s comedy, produced
in 1776.

_Mr. Connor._ Charles Connor (d. 1826), Irish comedian.

428. _The Manager in Distress._ By George Colman the elder.

‘_Too Late for Dinner._’ A farce by Richard Jones the actor.

429. ‘_Great heir of fame._’ Milton, _On Shakespeare_. l. 5.

‘_Strange that_,’ _etc._ Cf. ‘Then there’s hope a great man’s
memory may outlive his life half a year.’ _Hamlet_, Act III.
Sc. 2.

_Don Quixote’s throwing open the cages_, _etc._ _Don Quixote_,