[P. 323.] But why then publish. “Prologue to Satires,” 135.
Gay’s verses. “Mr. Pope’s Welcome from Greece” (ed. Muses’ Library, I, 207).
[P. 324.] E——. In “Literary Remains” the name supplied is Erasmus Phillips, probably a mistake for Edward Phillips.
nigh-sphered in heaven. Collins’s “Ode on the Poetical Character,” 66.
Garrick, David (1717-1779), the celebrated actor.
J. F——. According to “Literary Remains,” Barron Field (1786-1846), Lamb’s friend and correspondent.
Handel, George Frederick (1685-1759), the musical composer, German by birth but naturalized in England.
[P. 325.] Wildair, in Farquhar’s comedy “Sir Harry Wildair.”
Abel Drugger, in Ben Jonson’s “Alchemist,” was one of Garrick’s famous parts.
[P. 326.] author of Mustapha. Fulke Greville.