[(14)] I trust the absurdity of this quotation here will be forgiven for its beauty. It is borrowed from Miss Baillie, the first dramatic poet of the age.
[(15)] As, by a mode of criticism equally false and unjust, the worst sentiments of my worst characters, (from the ravings of Bertram to the blasphemies of Cardonneau), have been represented as my own, I must here trespass so far on the patience of the reader as to assure him, that the sentiments ascribed to the stranger are diametrically opposite to mine, and that I have purposely put them into the mouth of an agent of the enemy of mankind.
[(16)] The Catholics and Protestants were thus distinguished in the wars of the League.
[(17)] Catholics.
[(18)] Protestants.
[(19)] Dissenters.
[(20)] Ireland.
[(21)] I have read the legend of this Polish saint, which is circulated in Dublin, and find recorded among the indisputable proofs of his vocation, that he infallibly swooned if an indecent expression was uttered in his presence—when in his nurse’s arms!
[(22)] Alluding possibly to “Romeo and Juliet.”
[(23)] Vide Don Quixote, Vol. II. Smollet’s Translation.