[389.] Ibid.
[390.] As Cowper says in The Progress of Error:
"From school to Cam or Isis, and thence home:
And thence with all convenient speed to Rome.
With reverend tutor clad in habit lay,
To tease for cash and quarrel with all day:
With memorandum-book for every town,
And every post, and where the chaise broke down."
Foote's play, An Englishman in Paris, represents in the character of the pedantic prig named Classick, the sort of university tutor who was sometimes substituted for the parson, as an appropriate guardian.
[391.] The Bear-Leaders, London, 1758.
[392.] Lady Mary Wortley Montagu met many of these pairs at Rome, where she writes that, by herding together and throwing away their money on worthless objects, they had acquired the title of Golden Asses, and that Goldoni adorned his dramas with "gli milordi Inglesi" in the same manner as Molière represented his Parisian marquises (Letters, ed. Wharncliffe, London, 1893, vol. ii. p. 327).
[393.] William Congreve, The Way of the World, Act III. Sc. xv.
[394.] Philip Thicknesse, Observations on the Customs and Manners of the French Nation, London, 1766, p. 3.
[395.] Thomas Gray the poet.
[396.] Horace Walpole, Letters, ed. Cunningham, London, 1891, vol. i. p. 24.