[119] The manager of a strolling company.
[120] A Trip to the Nile was Mr. Dibdin’s first production on Covent Garden boards.
[121] Family Quarrels, in which the Jews were attacked. Thomas Dibdin died on September 16, 1841.
[122] The “Rule of Three,” useful for calculating which political party to adopt, in order quickly to obtain a profitable place.
[123] Had Grouchy arrived at the appointed time Napoleon would probably not have been beaten at Waterloo.
[124] In a foot note the author of The New Timon wrote “The whole of this Poem (! ! !) is worth reading, in order to see to what depths of silliness the human intellect can descend:—
“O Darling room, my heart’s delight
Dear room, the apple of my sight,
With thy two couches soft and white,
There is no room so exquisite,