[189a] She was then twenty-eight years of age. Sir Thomas must have spoken of her from earlier recollections. Shakspeare was in his twentieth year.

[193a] It is to be feared that his taste for venison outlasted that for matrimony, spite of this vow.

[211] It was purchased by a victualler and banker, the father or grandfather of Lord Riversdale.

[217] It happened so.

[221] The editor has been unable to discover who was the author of this very free translation of an Ode in Horace. He is certainly happy in his amplification of the stridore acuto. May it not be surmised that he was some favourite scholar of Ephraim Barnett?