Dilworth and Dyche. A reference to Thomas Dilworth's Guide to the English Tongue (1761) and Thomas Dyche's Guide to the English Tongue (1709).
[P. 95.] Sapphics. Southey's The Widow:
Cold was the night wind, drifting fast the snow fell;
Wide were the downs and shelterless and naked,
When a poor wanderer struggled on her journey,
Weary and way-sore.
George Tierney was the 'Friend of Humanity.' The original shared the fate of the other two poems in being finally suppressed.
[P. 97.] The Loves of the Triangles. Darwin's Loves of the Plants. Frere wrote the first lines to 'And liveried lizards wait upon her call' ([p. 99]); Ellis from that point to 'Twine round his struggling heart, and bind with endless chain' ([p. 101]); Canning, Ellis, and Frere were the joint-authors of the portion from 'Thus, happy France' to 'And folds the parent-monarch to her breast' ([p. 102]), Canning alone being responsible for the following twelve lines; and the trio finished the parody together. As a rule only portions of this masterpiece sui generis have hitherto been reprinted.
[P. 104.] Lodi's blood-stained Bridge. Napoleon beat the Austrians at Lodi on May 10, 1796.
[P. 105.] Muir, Ashley, etc. Thomas Muir (1765-1798) was a Parliamentary reformer; Thomas Paine (1737-1809), author of the Rights of Man; Archibald Hamilton Rowan (1751-1834), a prominent United Irishman; Ashley and Barlow evade identification.