FOOTNOTES
[1] A recipe strongly in favour with the artistic and literary world.
[2] June 11th. The apparent error arises through March 25th being at that time still occasionally considered as New Year’s Day.
[3] We have been told lately that it was not Napoleon but an American orator named Adams who first applied this epithet to us. If this is true, it comes with an additional bad grace, for whatever right a Frenchman has to such a sneer, certainly no American can claim it.
[4] Pindar.
[5] Than satirical pamphlets.
Underneath
Lieth the Body of Robert
Comonly Called Bone Phillip
who died July 27th 1793
Aged 65 Years,
At whose request The following lines are here inserted.
Here lie I at the Chancel door,
Here lie I because I’m poor
The forther in the more you’ll pay
Here lie I as warm as they
[7] N.B.—Not responsible for pronunciation of the English language.
[8] I’m afraid your rhymes, Mr. Poet, are somewhat indiscreet.
[9] See how sadly the exigencies of rhyme fetter the poet: the palate and not the lip give the sense of taste.
[10] Anglice, farm-yards.
[11] This seems a peculiarly modern touch.
[12] Fill, dear reader, these blanks à discrétion.
[13] Corruption also of Phillis.