Page 274, line 29. Lighter colour. Here the London Magazine had: "a pea-green coat, for instance, like the bridegroom."
Page 274, line 34. A lucky apologue. I do not find this fable; but
Lamb's father, in his volume of poems, described in a note on page
381, has something in the same manner in his ballad "The Sparrow's
Wedding":—
The chatt'ring Magpye undertook
Their wedding breakfast for to cook,
He being properly bedight
In a cook's cloathing, black and white.
Page 275, foot. The Admiral's favourite game. Admiral Burney wrote a treatise on whist (see notes to "Mrs. Battle's Opinions on Whist").
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Page 276. THE CHILD ANGEL.
London Magazine, June, 1823.
Thomas Moore's Loves of the Angels was published in 1823. Lamb used it twice for his own literary purposes: on the present occasion, with tenderness, and again, eight years later, with some ridicule, for his comic ballad, "Satan in Search of a Wife," 1831, was ironically dedicated to the admirers of Moore's poem (see Vol. IV.).
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Page 279. A DEATH-BED.