[172:9] For drames always go by contraries.—Lover: The Angel's Whisper.

[172:10] Spick and span new.—Ford: The Lover's Melancholy, act i. sc. 1. Farquhar: Preface to his Works.

[172:11] Plain as a pike-staff.—Terence in English (1641). Buckingham: Speech in the House of Lords, 1675. Gil Blas (Smollett's translation), book xii. chap. viii. Byrom: Epistle to a Friend.

[173:1] See Shakespeare, page [51].

[173:2]

So for a good old gentlemanly vice,

I think I must take up with avarice.

Byron: Don Juan, canto i. stanza 216.

[173:3] There is no love lost between us.—Cervantes: Don Quixote, book iv. chap. xxiii. Goldsmith: She Stoops to Conquer, act iv. Garrick: Correspondence, 1759. Fielding: The Grub Street Opera, act i. sc. 4.

[173:4] See Shakespeare, page [123].