V. ii. 13.

'basket.' See Note on Act I. i. 15.

V. ii. 19. rabbit me.' From Fr. rabattre, to beat down, humble. Cp. rabate, rebate.

V ii. 24, 25. A similar trick was afterwards played by Sheridan on Madame de Genlis.

V. iii. 186, 187. The common stage variant "Constantia Neville may go to the Devil" has no warrant in the early editions, though it is possible that Quick was tempted by the rhyme and made the change, a proceeding which would somewhat justify the charge of vulgarity brought by Walpole against the play.

Epil. I. This Epilogue was spoken by Mrs Bulkley (d. 1792) as "Miss Hardcastle." It appears in the editio princeps between Garrick's Prologue and the Dramatis Persona.

1. 8. Cp. As You Like It, II. vii.

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1. 26. Nancy Dawson'; a popular contemporary song. Faro,' the opening words of an air in Glück's Orfeo ed Euridice, 1764.

1. 29.

'Heinel'; the name of a French dancer at the Opera House, who was very popular about 1773.

1. 32. 'spadille'; i.e. the ace of spades in the card games of ombre and quadrille. Cp.

'Spadillio first, unconquerable lord,

Led off two captive trumps and swept the board.'

1. 36. pleads for Bayes'; the name of a

ingham's Rehearsal, intended for Dryden.

Pope, Rape, III. 49.

character in BuckThere is possibly a

punning allusion to the crown of bay leaves given to a successful poet.

Epil. II. A note in the editio princeps says:

"This came

too late to be Spoken." Cradock was the author of Zubeide, etc, and an intimate friend of Goldsmith.

I. 2. 'nonly,' a vulgarism for only. Cp. the change by which an ewt became a newt.

1. 17. 'Sadler's-Wells'; a popular pleasure garden, built in 1683 for the entertainment of visitors to a medicinal spring near the New River Head; in 1765 it was transformed into a theatre.

1. 18. roratorio, the first oratorio in London was performed in 1732 in Lincoln's Inn.

In Goldsmith's Poems will be found two other Epilogues intended for this play.

TURNBULL & SPEARS, PRINTERS, EDINBURGH