[Footnote 206: See the "Stranger; or, Reform'd Housekeeper," in which the former of these morals is beautifully illustrated; and "Stella," a genteel German comedy, which ends with placing a man _bodkin_ between _two wives_, like _Thames_ between his _two banks_, in the "Critic." Nothing can be more edifying than these two dramas. I am shocked to hear that there are some people who think them ridiculous.] [Footnote 207: These are the warnings very properly given to readers, to beware how they judge of what they cannot understand. Thus, if the translation runs "lightning of my soul, fulguration of angels, sulphur of hell;" we should recollect that this is not coarse or strange in the German language, when applied by a lover to his mistress; but the English has nothing precisely parallel to the original Mulychause Archangelichen, which means rather "emanation of the archangelican nature"--or to Smellmynkern Vankelfer, which, if literally rendered, would signify "made of stuff of the same odour whereof the devil makes flambeaux." See Schüttenbrüch on the German Idiom.] [Footnote 208: This is an excellent joke in German; the point and spirit of which is but ill-rendered in a translation. A Noddy, the reader will observe, has two significations--the one a "knave at all-fours;" the other a "fool or booby." See the translation by Mr. Render of "Count Benyowsky; or, the Conspiracy of Kamtschatka," a German tragi-comi-comi-tragedy: where the play opens with a scene of a game at chess (from which the whole of this scene is copied), and a joke of the same point and merriment about pawns--_i.e._, boors being _a match_ for kings.] [Footnote 209: This word in the original is strictly "fellow-lodgers"--"co-occupants of the same room, in a house let out at a small rent by the week." There is no single word in English which expresses so complicated a relation, except, perhaps, the cant term of "chum," formerly in use at our universities.] [Footnote 210: The balalaika is a Russian instrument, resembling the guitar.--See the play of "Count Benyowsky," rendered into English.] [Footnote 211: See "Count Benyowsky; or, the Conspiracy of Kamschatka," where Crustiew, an old gentleman of much sagacity, talks the following nonsense: _Crustiew_ [_with youthful energy and an air of secrecy and confidence_.] "To fly, to fly, to the Isles of Marian--the island of Tinian--a terrestrial paradise. Free--free--a mild climate--a new created sun--wholesome fruits--harmless inhabitants--and Liberty--tranquillity."] [Footnote 212: See "Count Benyowsky." as before.] [Footnote 213: See "Count Benyowsky."] [Footnote 214: See "Count Benyowsky" again; from which play this and the preceding references are taken word for word. We acquit the Germans of such reprobate silly stuff. It must be the translator's.]