Squire Homespun probably meant Cahors.
The Water-Cure.—Page [178].
These verses were suggested by the recollection of an anecdote in Madame de Genlis, which seemed to lend itself to eighteenth-century treatment. It was therefore somewhat depressing, not long after they were written, to find that the subject had already been annexed in the Tatler by an actual eighteenth-century writer, who, moreover, claimed to have founded his story on a contemporary incident. Burton, nevertheless, had told it before him, as early as 1621, in the Anatomy of Melancholy.
"In Babylonian numbers hidden."—Page [180].
"—nec Babylonios
Tentaris numeros."
Hor. i., 11.
"And spite of the mourning that most of us wear."—Page [259].
In March, 1773, when She Stoops to Conquer was first played, there was a court-mourning for the King of Sardinia (Forster's Goldsmith, Book iv. Chap. 15).
"But he grows every day more and more like the print.—Page [259].
"Mr. Wilkes, with his usual good humour, has been heard to observe, that he is every day growing more and more like his portrait by Hogarth (i.e. the print of May 16th, 1763)."
Biographical Anecdotes of William Hogarth, 1782, pp. 305-6.