"At length they in the Rubbish spy A Thing resembling a Goose Py." SWIFT'S verses on _Vanbrugh's House_, 1706. "_The Oaf preferred the_ 'Tongs and Bones.'"--Page 145. "I have a reasonable good ear in music; let us have the tongs and the bones." _Midsummer-Night's Dream_, Act iv., Sc. i. "_And sighed o'er Chaos wine for Stingo._"--Page 145. Squire Homespun probably meant Cahors. THE WATER-CURE.--Page 178. These verses were suggested by the recollection of an anecdote in Madame de Genlis, which seemed to lend itself to eighteenth-century treatment. It was therefore somewhat depressing, not long after they were written, to find that the subject had already been annexed in the _Tatler_ by an actual eighteenth-century writer, who, moreover, claimed to have founded his story on a contemporary incident. Burton, nevertheless, had told it before him, as early as 1621, in the _Anatomy of Melancholy_. "_In Babylonian numbers hidden._"--Page 180. "--nec Babylonios Tentaris numeros." Hor. i., 11. "_And spite of the mourning that most of us wear._"--Page 259. In March, 1773, when _She Stoops to Conquer_ was first played, there was a court-mourning for the King of Sardinia (Forster's _Goldsmith_, Book iv. Chap. 15). "_But he grows every day more and more like the print._--Page 259. "Mr. _Wilkes_, with his usual good humour, has been heard to observe, that he is every day growing more and more like his portrait by _Hogarth_ (i.e. the print of May 16th, 1763)." _Biographical Anecdotes of William Hogarth_, 1782, pp. 305-6. Transcriber's Notes: Ah, Postumus, we all must go: 'Postumus' unchanged. 'Posthumous' is current spelling. Hyphenation of the following unchanged: chairmen chair-men Masterpiece Master-piece recall re-call