[142] Second Part of Henry IV. act 3. sc. 2.
[143] Birch's Negotiations, pp. 206, 207, quoted in the work above mentioned, p. 189. Whenever we quote from any authorities but the original, we beg the reader to bear in mind, first, that we always notice our having done so; and, secondly, that we make a point of comparing the originals with the report. Both Monmouth and Birch, for example, have been consulted in the present instance.
[144] We allude to the celebrated saying of Gibbon respecting the Fairy Queen.
[145] In his Letters on the English Nation. But we quote from memory.
[146] We conclude so from our authorities in both instances. Mr. Malcolm's Londinium Redivivum, vol. iii., p. 398.
[147] See his life in Chalmers's General Biographical Dictionary, vol. v., p. 280.
[148] General Biographical Dictionary, 8vo., 1812, vol. vii.
[149] Letters on the English Nation.
[150] Life, in Chalmers's English Poets, p. 26.
[151] Spence's Anecdotes, p. 376.