[59]. Of all men the most miserable. 1 Cor. xv. 19.
Above all pain. Pope’s Epistle to Robert, Earl of Oxford.
Berchem. See ante, note to p. [22].
Hath a devil. S. Luke vii. 33.
[60]. Mieris. A family of Delft and Leyden painters, the best known of whom are Frans van Mieris, one of twenty-three children (1635–1681), the ‘prince of Dou’s pupils,’ and William van Mieris, his son (1662–1747).
The porcelain of Franguestan. ‘Vathek voluptuously reposed in his capacious litter upon cushions of silk, with two little pages beside him of complexions more fair than the enamel of Franguistan.’ The description is commented on in a note which explains that they were Circassian boy-slaves.
Sir Richard Colt Hoare. Historian of Wiltshire (1758–1838).
[61]. Tempt but to betray.
Cf. ‘Whose fruit though fair, tempts only to destroy.’
Cowper, The Progress of Error, 238.