[218] "Fellow."—Ed. 1786.
[219] "To gain a mere trifle, a shilling or so."—Ed. 1786.
[220] General Gage's Soliloquy, and General Gage's Confession, both printed in 1775.
[221] "Under orders from the New York Convention Isaac Sears, in the night of the twenty-fourth of August [1775] removed cannon from the battery of the city. Captain Vandeput of the Asia, a British man-of-war in the harbor of the city, kept up a heavy but ineffective fire on the working party, who succeeded in removing twenty-one eighteen pounders with their carriages. It was feared that a bombardment would follow and families began to retreat into the country."—Bancroft.
[222] This line and the following not in the 1786 edition.
[223] "At first we supposed it was only a sham."—Ed. 1786.
[224] "Moderate."—Ed. 1786.
[225] "Pitiful whining."—Ed. 1795.
"With his paunch of a hog, and his brains of an oyster,
Whence the mischief came he with his radical moisture."—Ed. 1786.