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"Whate'er Lorraine light touch'd with softening hue,

Or savage Rosa dash'd, or learned Poussin drew."

Thomson's Castle of Indolence, Canto I. stanza xxxviii. lines 8, 9.]

[676] If I err not, "your Dane" is one of Iago's catalogue of nations "exquisite in their drinking."

["Your Dane, your German, and your swag-bellied Hollander—drink hoa! are nothing to your English." "Is your Englishman so exquisite in his drinking?" (So Collier and Knight. The Quarto reads "expert").—Othello, act ii. sc. 3, lines 71-74.]

[MI]

His bell-mouthed goblet—and his laughing group

Provoke my thirst—what ho! a flask of Rhenish.—[MS. erased.]

[MJ] {503}Hath yet at night the very best of wines.—[MS.]