FAT FOLKS.
Prince Harry and Falstaff, in Shakspeare, have carried the ridicule upon fat and lean as far as it will go. Falstaff is humorously called Wool-Sack, Bed Presser, and Hill of Flesh; Harry, a Starveling, an Eel's-skin, a Sheath, a Bow-case, and a Tuck.
Footnote 1:[ (return)]
Childe Harold, Canto iv.
Footnote 2:[ (return)]See Mirror, vol. xvi.
Footnote 3:[ (return)]The small of the stone-coal.
Footnote 4:[ (return)]See Mirror, vol. xii.
Footnote 5:[ (return)]Abridged from the paper on Southey's Life of Bunyan, in the last Quarterly Review.
Footnote 6:[ (return)]Parable of the Pilgrim, chapter xxx.
Footnote 7:[ (return)]Ibidem, chapter xxxiv.
Footnote 8:[ (return)]The Poet Laureate may, perhaps, like to hear that Dr. Patrick introduces into his parable a very tolerable edition of that legend of the roasted fowls recalled to life by St. James of Compostella, of which he himself has recently given us so lively and amusing a metrical version.
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