[68]. William Dimond of Bath, the author of a great number of plays.
[69]. Cf. ante, pp. 411-12.
[70]. Cf. ‘In their trinal triplicities on bye.’ The Faerie Queene, Book I. Canto I. St. 38.
[71]. Cf. ‘Their lips were four red roses on a stalk.’ Richard III., Act IV. Sc. 3.
[72]. A Winter’s Tale, Act IV. Sc. 4.
[73]. L’Allegro, 14 et seq.
[74]. By Richard Lalor Shell.
[75]. Dr. John Stoddart, who had left The Times early in 1817, and started The Day and New Times, afterwards known as The New Times.
[76]. Founded on Bickerstaffe’s Love in the City, and first produced 1781.
[77]. Comus, 476-7.