[71] The Prisoner was accommodated with a neat “folding bed.”
[72] Dr. E. V. Kenealy was M. P. for Stoke, and edited The Englishman Newspaper.
[73] “Pack” is the Arctic ice. “Shove,” when river-ice begins to move, in America.
[74] The Poet’s residence.
[75] “The White Doe of Rylstone” which had a very slow sale. Jeffrey wrote of it that it was the very worst poem he ever saw in a quarto volume.
[76] Jack and Nancy, as it was afterwards remarked to the Authors, are here made to come into the world at periods not sufficiently remote. The writers were then bachelors. One of them, unfortunately, still continues so, as he has thus recorded in his niece’s album:
“Should I seek Hymen’s tie,
As a poet I die—
Ye Benedicks, mourn my distresses!
For what little fame