N——‘s. Northcote’s.
H—y—dn’s. Haydon’s.
A Doctor Tronchin. Theodore Tronchin (1709–1781), Genevan physician and friend of Rousseau.
Sir Fopling Flutter. In Sir George Etherege’s comedy The Man of Mode.
For wit is like a rest. Master Francis Beaumont’s Letter to Ben Jonson, printed in Beaumont and Fletcher’s Comedies (1647) [the best gamesters].
L—— once came down. To Winterslow. See Vol. VI. Table Talk, notes to pp. 90 and 188.
Like the most capricious poet [honest] Ovid. As You Like It, III. 3.
Walked gowned. Lamb’s Sonnet, written at Cambridge, August 15, 1819.
The person I mean. Undoubtedly George Dyer. See Lamb’s description of him in ‘Oxford in the Vacation’ (Essays of Elia).