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170. _The upturned eyes of wondering mortals._ _Romeo and Juliet_, Act II. Sc. 2.

_His Devin du Village._ Rousseau’s opera (1753), now best known because of the air in it called ‘Rousseau’s Dream.’

171. _Derivis._ Henri Etienne Dérivis (1780–1856), operatic singer, renowned for his powerful bass voice.

_It is my vice to spy into abuses._ _Othello_, Act III. Sc. 3.

173. _Non sat_[is] _est pulchra poemata esse, dulcia sunto_. Horace, _Ars Poet._, 99.

174. _Madame Le Gallois._ Amélie-Marie-Antoinette Legallois, born 1804. She was a favourite dancer for many years, and retired about 1839.

_Nina._ An Italian opera, produced at Naples, May 1787. See vol. VII. _The Plain Speaker_, p. 325.

_Oh for a beaker full of the warm South._ Keats, _Ode to a Nightingale_.

_Gazza Ladra._ A comic opera by Rossini, produced 1817.

_Mombelli._ Esther Mombelli (b. 1794).

_Pellegrini._ Félix Pellegrini (1774–1832).

175. _The Maid and the Magpie._ See vol. VII. _A View of the English Stage_, pp. 244, 279.