Page 154, line 8 from foot. Hero of La Mancha.  Compare a similar analysis of Don Quixote’s character on page 264.

Page 155, line 23. Dodd.  James William Dodd (1740?-1796).

Page 155, line 24. Lovegrove.  William Lovegrove (1778-1816), famous in old comedy parts and as Peter Fidget in “The Boarding House.”

Page 155, foot. The gardens of Gray’s Inn. These gardens are said to have been laid out under the supervision of Bacon, who retained his chambers in the Inn until his death.  As Dodd died in 1796 and Lamb wrote in 1822, it would be fully twenty-six years and perhaps more since Lamb met him.

Page 156, lines 26-29. Foppington, etc. Foppington in Vanbrugh’s “Relapse,” Tattle in Congreve’s “Love for Love,” Backbite in Sheridan’s “School for Scandal,” Acres in “The Rivals” by the same author, and Fribble in Garrick’s “Miss in her Teens.”

Page 157, line 13. If few can remember. The praise of Suett that follows is interpolated here from the third part of Lamb’s original essay (see page 332).  Richard Suett, who had been a Westminster chorister (not St. Paul’s), left the stage in June, 1805, and died in July.

Page 157, footnote, Jem White.  See note above.

Page 158, line 22. His friend Mathews. Charles Mathews (1776-1835), whom Lamb knew.

Page 159, line 1. Jack Bannister. John Bannister retired from the stage in 1815.  He died in 1836.

Page 159, line 7. Children in the Wood. Morton’s play, of which Lamb was so fond.  It is mentioned again in “Barbara S——­” and “Old China.”

Page 159, line 19. The elder Palmer. The first part of the essay is here resumed again.  The elder Palmer was John Palmer, who died on the stage, in 1798, when playing in “The Stranger.”  Lamb’s remarks tend to confuse him with Gentleman Palmer, who died before Lamb was born.  Robert Palmer, John’s brother, died about 1805.

Page 159, line 22. Moody.  John Moody (1727?-1812), famous as Teague in “The Committee.”

Page 159, lines 31 to 36. The Duke’s Servant, etc. The Duke’s servant in Garrick’s “High Life below Stairs,” Captain Absolute in Sheridan’s “Rivals,” Dick Amlet in Vanbrugh’s “Confederacy.”

Page 160, line 1. Young Wilding ...  Joseph Surface. In Foote’s “Liar” and Sheridan’s “School for Scandal.”

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Page 161.  ON THE ARTIFICIAL COMEDY OF THE LAST CENTURY.

See note to the essay “On Some of the Old Actors.”

See also “A Vision of Horns” (Vol.  I.) for, as it seems to me, a whimsical extension to the point of absurdity of the theory expressed in this essay—­a theory which Lord Macaulay, in his review of Leigh Hunt’s edition of the Dramatic Works of Wycherley, Congreve, etc., in 1840, opposed with characteristic vigour.

Hartley Coleridge, in a letter to Edward Moxon concerning Leigh Hunt’s edition of Wycherley and Congreve, happily remarked:  “Nothing more or better can be said in defence of these writers than what Lamb has said in his delightful essay ... which is, after all, rather an apology for the audiences who applauded and himself who delighted in their plays, than for the plays themselves....  But Lamb always took things by the better handle.”