With that he made a Leg."—Page [137].
"Jove made his Leg and kiss'd the Dame,
Obsequious Hermes did the Same."
Prior.
"So took his Virtú off to Cock's."—Page [137].
Cock, the auctioneer of Covent Garden, was the Christie and Manson of the last century. The leading idea of this fable, it should be added, is taken from one by Gellert.
"Of Van's 'Goose-Pie.'"—Page [139].
"At length they in the Rubbish spy
A Thing resembling a Goose Py."
Swift's verses on Vanbrugh's House, 1706.
"The Oaf preferred the 'Tongs and Bones.'"—Page [145].
"I have a reasonable good ear in music; let us have the tongs and the bones."
Midsummer-Night's Dream, Act iv., Sc. i.
"And sighed o'er Chaos wine for Stingo."—Page [145].