So clomb this first grand thief——
Thence up he flew, and on the tree of life
Sat like a cormorant.
Paradise Lost, iv.
[113] Then the residence of George, Prince Regent, his present address is rather doubtful.
[114] i.e. Paternoster Row. A Publisher. “Now Barabbas was a—publisher.”
[115] The Earl of Liverpool, who was premier from 1812 to 1820.
[116] Temple Bar was removed from Fleet Street, to make way for the costly, and still more unsightly obstruction known as the Griffin.
[117] What is a caxen?—Ed. P.
[118] Thomas Dibdin, song-writer and dramatist, was born in 1771. He was apprenticed to Sir William Rawlins, Knt., who then kept a broker’s shop in Moorfields.