Pellegrini. Félix Pellegrini (1774–1832).
[175]. The Maid and the Magpie. See vol. VII. A View of the English Stage, pp. 244, 279.
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Note. Madame Pasta. See vol. VII. The Plain Speaker, pp. 324, et seq.
[176]. In summer shade [yield him], in winter fire. Pope, Ode on Solitude.
Maritorneses. From the name of the servant wench in Don Quixote, who had hair like a horse’s tail.
[177]. A thing of life. Byron’s Corsair, Canto I. 3.
Fit for speed succinct. Paradise Lost, III. 643.
Mark how a plain tale shall put them down. 1 King Henry IV., Act II. Sc. 4.