Philomusus and Studioso. Act II. 1, Act III. 5.
Out of our proof we speak. Cymbeline, III. 3.
I was not train’d. Charles Lamb’s Sonnet, written at Cambridge, August 15, 1819.
[284]. Made desperate. The Excursion, VI. 532–3, quoted from Jeremy Taylor’s Holy Dying, Chap. 1, § V.
A mere scholar. Return from Parnassus, II. 6.
The examination of Signor Immerito. Act III. 1.
[286]. Gammer Gurton’s Needle. Printed 1575. John Still (1543–1607), afterwards Bishop of Bath and Wells, is supposed to be its author.
[287]. Gog’s crosse, and the following quotations. Act I. 5.
[289]. Such very poor spelling. Cf. Lamb’s story of Randal Norris, who once remarked after trying to read a black-letter Chaucer, ‘in those old books, Charley, there is sometimes a deal of very indifferent spelling.’ See
Lamb’s Letter to H. Crabb Robinson, Jan. 20, 1827; Hone’s Table Book, Feb. 10, 1827; and the first edition of the Last Essays of Elia, 1833. A Death-Bed.