Shakespeare.
[7] In plain English, the Halfpenny-hatch, then a footway through fields; but now, as the same bards sing elsewhere—
“St. George’s Fields are fields no more,
The trowel supersedes the plough;
Swamps, huge and inundate of yore,
Are changed to civic villas now.”
[8] Some extracts from this parody, with an illustration by Cruikshank, will be found in Vol. IV. Parodies, p. 102.
[9] John Kemble.
[10] Madame Catalani.
[11] “Company” understood.