[201] Boswell: Life of Samuel Johnson.
[202] Wraxall: Historical Memoirs of My Own Times.
[203] Peter Pindar: Ode upon Ode; or, A Peep at St. James's.
[204] Conversations with the late Mr. Beckford.
[205] Lyric Odes to Royal Academicians.
[206] An Heroic Epistle to an Unfortunate Monarch.
"Peregrine the Elder," the author of the Heroic Epistle, assures his readers that the question asked in the last line was asked by a Scotchman at the first performance of Home's "Douglas."
[207] Thackeray: The Four Georges.
George III created one order of Knighthood, that of St. Patrick in 1783, in the hope to conciliate the Irish, who, however, treated it with ridicule.
"George sends his stars and garters to our land,
We send him ropes to hang his pensioned band,
And, having made the crew disgorge their pelf,
He then may, if he pleases, hang himself."