[Footnote 1:]

Byron alludes to Caleb Quotem's song in

The Review, or Wags of Windsor

(act ii. sc. 2), by George Colman the Younger:

"I'm parish clerk and sexton here,
My name is Caleb Quotem,
I'm painter, glazier, auctioneer,
In short, I am factotum."
...
"At night by the fire, like a good, jolly cock,
When my day's work is done and all over,
I tipple, I smoke, and I wind up the clock,
With my sweet Mrs. Quotem in clover.

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