CHARACTERS.
| Dr. Primrose | (Vicar of Wideawakefield) | Mr. A. Roberts | ||
| Squire Thornhill | Miss Violet Cameron | |||
| Mr. Burchell | Mr. T. Squire | |||
| Moses | ⎫ | The | ⎧ | Mr. J. Jarvis |
| Bill | ⎬ | Vicar’s | ⎨ | Miss M. Pearce |
| Dick | ⎭ | Sons | ⎩ | Miss G. Tyler |
| Leigh | (a Vagabond) | Miss Lesley Bell | ||
| Farmer Flamborough | Mr. Corry | |||
| Mrs. Primrose | Miss Harriet Coveney | |||
| Olivia | ⎫ | her | ⎧ | Miss Laura Linden |
| Sophia | ⎭ | Daughters | ⎩ | Miss Agnes Hewitt |
| Polly Flamborough | Miss Sylvia Grey | |||
| Gipsy Woman | Miss M. Rayson | |||
In The Retaliation Goldsmith treated David Garrick with some severity, and the cause may perhaps be found in some lines written by Garrick, descriptive of the curious character of Goldsmith, and therefore forming a fitting conclusion to this Collection of Parodies of his works:—
Jupiter and Mercury, a Fable,
Here, Hermes says Jove, who with Nectar was mellow,
Go, fetch me some clay—I will make an odd fellow:
Right and wrong shall be jumbled,—much gold and some dross:
Without cause be he pleas’d, without cause be he cross;
Be sure, as I work to throw in contradictions,
A great love of truth, yet, a mind turned to fictions;