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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.

178. _Dr. S._ Dr. Stoddart. _See ante_, note to p. 142.

_Famous poet’s pen._ Cf. Spenser’s _Verses_ to the Earl of Essex.

182. _M. Martine’s Death of Socrates._ Alphonse-Marie-Louis de Prat de Lamartine’s (1791–1869) work was published in 1823.

_A nation of shopkeepers._ See vol. I. _The Round Table_, note to p. 150.

_M. de la Place._ Pierre Antoine de la Place (1707–1793) translated _Tom Jones_. The third edition of 1751 is in the British Museum.

183. _L. H._ Leigh Hunt.