[LK] {463}Themselves on seldom yielding to temptation.—[MS. erased.]

[628] {464}[Henry Hallam (1778-1859) published his View of the State of Europe in the Middle Ages in 1818.]

[LL] {465}A drunken Gentleman of forty's sure.—[MS.]

[629] This line may puzzle the commentators more than the present generation.

[LM]

If he can hiccup nonsense at a ball.

or, If he goes after dinner to a ball.-[MS. erased.]

[630] {466}[As You Like It, act ii. sc. 7, line 156; and Hamlet, act ii. sc. 2, lines, 97, 98.]

[LN] But first of little Leilah——.—[MS.]

[631] [For the allusion to "unsunned snows," vide ante, [p. 275, note 1].]