[61] [So, too, Falstaff, Henry IV., act ii. sc. 2, lines 79, 80.]
[W] {49}
Who've made us wait—God knows how long already,
For an entailed estate, or country-seat,
Wishing them not exactly damned, but dead—he
Knows nought of grief, who has not so been worried—
'T is strange old people don't like to be buried.—[MS.]
[62] [Byron has not been forgotten at Harrow, though it is a bend of the Cam (Byron's Pool), not his favourite Duck Pool (now "Ducker") which bears his name.]
[63] {50} [The reference is to the metallic tractors of Benjamin Charles Perkins, which were advertised as a "cure for all disorders, Red Noses," etc. Compare English Bards, etc., lines 131, 132—
"What varied wonders tempt us as they pass!