[P. 107.] Song by Rogero. The Rovers, or the Double Arrangement, was a travesty of German drama, in particular of Schiller's Robbers, Kotzebue's The Stranger, and Goethe's Stella, and it was performed at the Haymarket Theatre in 1811. It is the work of Canning, Ellis, and Frere, but only the first two wrote this 'song' (according to some authorities Pitt is credited with the last verse), having in mind Pitt's friend, Sir Robert Adair, who was educated at Göttingen. The editors of the Anti-Jacobin say: 'The song of Rogero with which the first act concludes is admitted on almost all hands to be in the very first taste, and if no German original is to be found for it, so much the worse for the credit of German literature.' This parody has itself often been parodied—by, among others, R. H. Barham, whose topic was the newly established London University.
[P. 109.] James Hogg. The Ettrick Shepherd's Poetic Mirror, or the Living Bards of Great Britain, was published anonymously in 1816, and it is generally admitted that his parodies of style are among the finest in the language. They are, however, overlong, and we have been obliged to be content with the 'song' alone from the parody of Scott, which, complete, would occupy more than seventy pages.
[P. 115.] The light-heel'd author of the Isle of Palms. John Wilson ('Christopher North') who published The Isle of Palms and other Poems in 1812.
[P. 124.] Joan I chose. Southey's Joan of Arc was published in 1796.
The next, a son, I bred a Mussulman. Thalaba the Destroyer, 1801.
A tiny thing... from the north... with vengeful spite was probably meant for the Edinburgh Review.
[P. 125.] My third, a Christian and a warrior true. Madoc, 1805.
And next, his brother, a supreme Hindu. The Curse of Kehama, 1810.
[P. 128.] The Curse. The closing lines are a faithful imitation of 'the Curse' in The Curse of Kehama, which ends:
Thou shalt live in thy pain