[Footnote 5: Cf. George R. Potter, "Henry Baker, F.R.S. (1698-1774)," _Modern Philology_, XXIX (1932), 305. Nathan Drake, _The Gleaner_, I (London, 1811), 220 seems mistaken in his remark that Baker's Scriblerian commentary (upon the nursery rhyme "Once I was a Batchelor, and lived by myself") was the model for later mock-ballad-criticisms.] [Footnote 6: For another early instance of our genre and a very pure one, see an anonymous Cambridge correspondent's critique of the burlesque broadside ballad of "Moor of Moore-Hall and the Dragon of Wantley," in Nathaniel Mist's _Weekly Journal_ (second series), September 2, 1721, reproduced by Roger P. McCutcheon, "Another Burlesque of Addison's Ballad Criticism," _Studies in Philology_, XXXIII (October, 1926), 451-456.] [Footnote 7: _Diary & Letters of Madame d'Arblay_ (London, 1904-1905), III, 121-122, 295: November 28, 1786; July 29, 1787; William Roberts, _Memoirs of the Life and Correspondence of Mrs. Hannah More_ (London, 1834), II, 46, letter from W. W. Pepys, December 31, 1786.] [Footnote 8: Advertisement inserted before No. I in a collected volume dated 1787 (Yale 217. 304g).] [Footnote 9: The source of the anecdote seems to be William Jordan, _National Portrait Gallery_ (London, 1831), II, 3, quoting a communication from Charles Knight the publisher, son of Charles Knight of Windsor. The present reprint of Nos. XI and XII of _The Microcosm_ is from the "Second" octavo collected edition, Windsor, 1788. _The Microcosm_ had reappeared at least seven times by 1835.] [Footnote 10: Iona and Peter Opie, _The Oxford Dictionary of Nursery Rhymes_ (Oxford, 1951), are unable to find an earlier printed source for this rhyme than the _European Magazine_, I (April, 1782), 252.] [Footnote 11: No. XXXVI of _The Microcosm_ is a letter from Capel Lofft defending the "Middle Style" of Addison in contrast to the more modern Johnsonian eloquence. Robert Bell, _The Life of the Rt. Hon. George Canning_ (London, 1846), pp. 48-54, in a helpful account of _The Microcosm_, stresses its general fidelity to _Spectator_ style and themes.] [Footnote 12: Canning's critique closes with an appendix of three and a half pages alluding to the Eton Shrovetide custom of writing Latin verses, known as the "Bacchus." See H. C. Maxwell Lyte, _A History of Eton College_ (London, 1911), pp. 146-147.]