FOOTNOTES:
[1] Written at the Crystal Palace Aquarium.
[2] J’entends.
[3] An adaptation of “Madonna mia.”
[4] See “The Gentleman’s Magazine,” Vol. 56, p. 427; also Boswell’s Life of Johnson, Vol. 10, p. 189—edition in 10 vols., published by John Murray, London, 1835.
[5] The lines in italics are usually omitted, as being too serious for the occasion. They allude to certain newspaper critics who were supposed to be present, and who became rather heated in their political expressions.
A bawbling vessel was he captain of
For shallow draught and bulk imprisible.