Chapter XLVII: Act V: Sc. 1

‘_Their mind to them_,’ _etc._ Sir Edward Dyer’s ‘My mynde to
me a kyngdome is,’ set to music by Byrd in 1588.

‘_Of all earth’s bliss_,’ _etc._ From Lamb’s version of
Thekla’s song in _Wallenstein_ (Part I., The Piccolomini).
See Coleridge’s _Poetical Works_ (ed. J. D. Campbell), 648.

408. ‘_By his so potent art._’ _The Tempest_, Act V. Sc. 1.

‘_Happy alchemy of mind._’ See vol. V., note to p. 107.

‘_Severn’s sedgy side._’ ‘Gentle Severn’s sedgy bank.’ _Henry
IV._, Part I., Act I. Sc. 3.

‘Note. ‘_The beggars are coming_,’ _etc._ From the old song
beginning, ‘Hark, hark, the dogs do bark,’ etc.

409. ‘_Alas! how changed_,’ _etc._ Pope, _Moral Essays_, III. 305-6.

‘_Made of penetrable stuff._’ _Hamlet_, Act III. Sc. 4.

410. ‘_See the puppets dallying._’ _Ibid._ Act III. Sc. 2.

_Mr. Stanley._ Stanley had been well known at Bath, and had
appeared for a short time at Drury Lane. Genest (VIII. 693)
describes him as ‘a very good actor for a provincial theatre,
and a fair actor for London.’

411. _Panopticon._ Cf. vol. IV., note to p. 197.

‘_My soul turn from them._’ Goldsmith, _The Traveller_, 165.

‘_Her, lovely Venus_,’ _etc._ _L’Allegro_, 14-16.

‘_Vernal airs_,’ _etc._ _Paradise Lost_, IV. 264-6.

‘_Three red roses_,’ _etc._ Cf. _Richard III._, Act IV. Sc. 3.

‘_The witchery_,’ _etc._ Wordsworth, _Peter Bell_ (Part I.), l.
265.

412. _Mr. Reeve._ John Reeve (1799-1838), a mimic and comedian,
chiefly associated with the Adelphi.

‘_Our hint to speak._’ _Othello_, Act I. Sc. 3.

413. _Mr. Peter Moore._ Peter Moore (1753-1828), member of
parliament and company promoter. He was at one time one of
the managers of Drury Lane Theatre.

_The Antiquary._ A musical play in three acts by Daniel Terry,
Jan. 25, 1820.

‘_Warbled._’ ‘Come, warble, come.’ _As You Like It_, Act II.
Sc. 5.

Note. _The Surrey Theatre._ The Surrey Theatre had been taken
by Thomas John Dibdin (1771-1841) in 1816.

414. ‘_Perplexed in the extreme._’ _Othello_, Act V. Sc. 2.

‘_Horror sat plumed._’ _Paradise Lost_, IV. 989.

‘_Of one that loved_,’ _etc._ _Othello_, Act V. Sc. 2.

‘_Turbaned Turk._’ _Ibid._ Act V. Sc. 2.

‘_I cannot think_,’ _etc._ _Ibid._ Act III. Sc. 3.

‘_The glorious triumph_ [trial],’ _etc._ _Paradise Lost_, IX.
961.

415. ‘_The high and palmy state._’ _Hamlet_, Act I. Sc. 1.

416. _Mr. Milman’s Fazio._ Produced at Covent Garden, Feb. 5, 1818.

‘_Look abroad_,’ _etc._ Bacon, _The Advancement of Learning_,