Locke. This paragraph is a reply to an argument in the Critical Review (xxiii., pp. 47, 48).
Quotation from Lilly. See p. [201].
the Water-poet, John Taylor (1580-1653); cf. Farmer's note, p. [212].
The quotation is from Taylor's Motto (Spenser Society Reprint of Folio of 1630, p. 217):—
I was well entred (forty Winters since)
As far as possum in my Accidence;
And reading but from possum to posset,
There I was mir'd, and could no further get.
In his Thiefe he says “all my schollership is schullership” (id., p. 282).
[164]. held horses at the door of the playhouse. This anecdote was given in Theophilus Cibber's Lives of the Poets, 1753, i., p. 130. Johnson appended it, in his edition, to Rowe's Account of Shakespeare (ed. 1765, p. clii), and it was printed in the same year in the Gentleman's Magazine (xxxv., p. 475). The story was told to Pope by Rowe, who got it from Betterton, who in turn had heard it from Davenant; but Rowe wisely doubted its authenticity and did not insert it in his Account (see the Variorum edition of 1803, i., pp. 120-122).—Farmer makes fun of it here,—and uses it to vary the Critical reviewer's description—“as naked with respect to all literary merit as he was when he first went under the ferula” (Crit. Rev. xxiii., p. 50).