[262]. Cadogan, William (1711-1797), a fashionable London doctor, who published in 1771 a Dissertation on the Gout and on all Chronic Diseases, in which he held that gout is “a disease of our own acquiring” and “the necessary effect of intemperance.”
[267], note. For if the Jew. Merchant of Venice, iv. 1. 280.
[269]. Souls made of fire and children of the sun. Edward Young, The Revenge, v. 2.
[270]. just where youth ends. Cf. Paradise Lost, xi. 245, 246.
[270]. Old, cold, and of intolerable entrails. Merry Wives, v. 5. 161.
Mrs. Montague. Two chapters in Mrs. Elizabeth Montagu's Essay on the Writings and Genius of Shakespear (1769) deal with the first and second parts of Henry IV. She speaks of “the cowardly and braggart temper of Falstaffe” (p. 103), and says that “gluttony, corpulency, and cowardice are the peculiarities of Falstaffe's composition” (p. 107).
[271]. golden fool. Timon of Athens, iv. 3. 18.
[277]. Players ... the worst judges of Shakespeare. Cf. Pope, Preface, p. 51.
[285]. line 27. attacked. The original has attached. The reprints of 1820 and 1825 read attached to.
[303]. He was shaked of a burning quotidian tertian. Henry V., ii. 1. 124, 91; ii. 3. 10.