[68] From "Catch Him who Can."
[69] From "The Fortress," a drama in three acts (1807). This song was sung with great success by Mathews. Vide anteà, [p. 9.]
[70] From the Farce of "Music Mad" (1808).
[71] From "Gilbert Gurney."
[72] From "Gilbert Gurney."
[73] From "Gilbert Gurney."
[74] This humorous sketch originally appeared (July, 1829) in Sharpe's London Magazine, a brief-lived monthly, which only reached its third number. The substance of it was afterwards incorporated into the novel of "Gilbert Gurney," where the name of Scropps was altered to Firkins. See the paper entitled "Lord Wenables Again" ([p. 304]).
[75] George the Fourth.
[76] Mr. Barham gives a different version of this hoax, and makes Terry, not Mathews, the coadjutor in it.—Ed.
[77] This reminds us of Byron's jest on the Trinity, in Don Juan: