[269]. The Flower and Leaf. This poem is not now regarded as Chaucer’s. Cf. vol. V. (Lectures on the English Poets), p. 27 and note.
KEAN’S BAJAZET, Etc.
This theatrical notice is proved to be Hazlitt’s by the passage (p. 276) beginning ‘Happy age, when the utmost stretch of a morning’s study,’ etc., which is repeated in the Lecture ‘On Wycherley, Congreve, Vanbrugh, and Farquhar.’ See vol. VIII. p. 70. Rowe’s Tamerlane was first produced in 1702.
[274]. Miss Stephens’s reappearance in Polly. Cf. vol. VIII. pp. 193–5. [275]. ‘Full of sound,’ etc. Macbeth, Act V. Sc. 5. ‘A load to sink a navy.’ Henry VIII. Act III. Sc. 2. Ambition as the hunger of noble minds. See Tamerlane, Act II. Sc. 2. [276]. The Country Girl. Produced originally in 1766, an adaptation by Garrick of The Country Wife of Wycherley. Cf. vol. VIII. p. 76. Mrs. Mardyn, Mrs. Alsop, and the actors here referred to are dealt with by Hazlitt in A View of the English Stage.
DOCTRINE OF PHILOSOPHICAL NECESSITY
This paper, signed ‘W,’ is clearly Hazlitt’s. Cf. the Lecture on the same subject, ante, pp. 48–74. The essay is No. XXVII. of the Round Table series.
[277]. ‘For I had learnt,’ etc. Cf. Wordsworth, Lines composed a few miles above Tintern Abbey, 95–102. [278]. ‘Threshold of Jove’s throne.’ Cf. ‘Before the starry threshold of Jove’s court,’ Comus, I. [279]. ‘Praise and blame,’ etc. Cf. ante, p. 56. [280]. ‘A good favour,’ etc. Loosely quoted from Much Ado About Nothing, Act III. Sc. 3. [282]. Marvell and his leg of mutton. Hazlitt refers to the story of Danby’s unsuccessful attempt to win over Marvell to the court. One version of the story is that in Danby’s presence Marvell summoned his servant and said to him, ‘Pray, what had I for dinner yesterday?’ ‘A shoulder of mutton.’ ‘And what do you allow me to-day?’ ‘The remainder hashed.’ Marvell then added to Danby, ‘And to-morrow, my lord, I shall have the sweet blade-bone broiled.’ ‘Allemagne,’ etc. De l’Allemagne, Preface. ‘But there is matter,’ etc. Wordsworth, Hart-Leap Well, 95–6.
PARALLEL PASSAGES IN VARIOUS POETS
No. XXVIII. of the Round Table series, and signed ‘W.’ The long passages from Voltaire, etc. have been indicated by the first and last line.
[282]. Zaire. 1732. [283]. ‘Soft you,’ etc. Othello, Act V. Sc. 2. ‘Vanished [melted] into thin air.’ The Tempest, Act IV. Sc. 1. Ducis. Jean François Ducis (1733–1816), who adapted some of Shakespeare’s plays for the stage.