Chapter XXVII: Act IV: Sc. 1

Note. ‘_The gentle and free passage of arms at Ashby._’ Described
by Scott in _Ivanhoe_, chap. viii.

19. ‘_Brothers of the angle._’ _The Compleat Angler_, part I. chap.
i.

‘_The Cockney character_,’ _etc._ This sentence was omitted in
_Sketches and Essays._

20. ‘_Book of Sports._’ James I.’s declaration (1618) authorising
certain forms of recreation after divine service on Sundays.
The declaration was republished by Charles I. in 1633.

‘_And e’en on Sunday_,’ _etc._ Burns, _Tam O’Shanter_.

_Gilray’s shop-window._ Miss Humphrey’s shop, 29 St. James’s
Street, where James Gilray (1757–1815), the caricaturist, spent
the last years of his life, and where his works were on view.
_Sketches and Essays_ prints ‘Fore’s shop-window.’

22. ‘_Merry and wise._’ ’Tis good to be merry and wise,’ a frequently
quoted old proverb.

‘_That under Heav’n_,’ _etc._ _The Faerie Queene_, I. vii. 32.
Cf. also Marlowe’s _Tamburlaine the Great_, Part II. Act IV.
Sc. 4.

24. _Nell, etc._ Nell in _The Devil to Pay_; Little Pickle in _The
Spoil’d Child_, a part created by Mrs. Jordan, March 22, 1790;
Lingo in _The Agreeable Surprise_; Nipperkin in _Sprigs of
Laurel_, a part created by Munden, May 11, 1793; old Dornton in
_The Road to Ruin_; Ranger in _The Suspicious Husband_; the
Copper Captain in _Rule a Wife and Have a Wife_, one of Lewis’s
great parts; Filch in _The Beggar’s Opera_; Hodge in _Love in a
Village_; Flora in _The Wonder_; Lady Grace in _The Provoked
Husband_.

‘_Tut!_’ _etc._ Cf. _Cymbeline_, Act III. Sc. 4.

‘_What’s our Britain_,’ _etc._ _Ibid._

25. _As I write this, etc._ See vol. IX. (_Notes of a Journey through
France and Italy_), pp. 281 _et seq._

‘_And gaudy butterflies_,’ _etc._ Cf. Gay, _The Beggar’s Opera_,