The Works of Charles and Mary Lamb Volume IV Part 98

Page 208. _The man with the great nose_. See Slawkenbergius's tale in _Tristram Shandy_, Vol. IV.

Page 212. _The feeling Hurley_. Harley was the hero of Henry Mackenzie's novel, _The Man of Feeling_.

Page 217. _Jeremiah Pry_. John Poole may have taken a hint here for his farce "Paul Pry," produced in September, 1825. Lamb and he knew each other slightly. Lamb a.n.a.lysed the prying nature again in _The New Times_ early in 1825, in two papers on "Tom Pry" and "Tom Pry's Wife" which will be found in Vol. I. of this edition.

Page 220. _Old Q----_. William Douglas, fourth Duke of Queensberry (1724-1810), the most notorious libertine of his later days.

Page 224. _John, my valet_. This is a very similar incident to that described in the _Elia_ essay on the "Old Benchers," where Lovel (John Lamb) warns Samuel Salt, when dressing him, not to allude, at the party to which he is going, to the unfortunate Miss Blandy.

Page 228, line 1. _Mother d.a.m.nable_. There was at Kentish Town a notorious old shrew who bore this nickname in the 17th century.

Page 238. "THE p.a.w.nBROKER'S DAUGHTER."

Printed in _Blackwood_, January, 1830, and not reprinted by Lamb.

This little play was never acted. Lamb refers to it in a letter to Bernard Barton--in July, 1829--as "an old rejected farce"; and Canon Ainger mentions a note of Lamb's to Charles Mathews, in October, 1828, offering the farce for production at the Adelphi. The theme is one that seems always to have interested Lamb (see his essay on the "Inconveniences of Being Hanged," Vol. I.).

Page 243, line 3. "_An Argument against the Use of Animal Food._" Joseph Ritson, 1752-1803, the antiquarian, was converted to vegetarianism by Mandeville's _Fable of the Bees_. The work from which Cutlet quotes was published in 1802. Pope's motto is from the _Essay on Man_, I., lines 81-84.

Page 243, last line. _Mr. Molyneux ... in training to fight Cribb_.

Cutlet's rump steak did not avail in either of the great struggles between Tom Cribb and Tom Molineaux. At their first meeting, on December 18, 1810, Molineaux went under at the thirty-third round; and in the return match, on September 28, 1811, Molineaux's jaw was broken at the ninth and he gave in at the eleventh, to the great disappointment of the 20,000 spectators. Mr. Molineaux was a negro.

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