The remaining verses, i.e. in addition to those of la Monnoye, are the contributions of successive generations. Goldsmith probably had in mind the version in Part iii of the _Ménagiana_, (ed. 1729, iii, 384–391) where apparently by a typographical error, the hero is called _‘le fameux la Galisse, homme imaginaire.’_ The verses he imitated most closely are reproduced below. It may be added that this poem supplied one of its last inspirations to the pencil of Randolph Caldecott, who published it as a picture-book in October, 1885. (See also _An Elegy on the Death of a Mad Dog_, p. 212.) Who left a pledge behind. Caldecott cleverly converted this line into the keynote of the poem, by making the heroine a pawnbroker. When she has walk’d before. Cf. the French:— On dit que dans ses amours Il fut caresse des belles, Qui le suivirent toujours, _Tant qu’il marcha devant elles._ Her last disorder mortal. Cf. the French:— Il fut par un triste sort Blesse d’une main cruelle. On croit, puis qu’il en est mort, _Que la plaie étoit mortelle._ Kent Street, Southwark, ‘chiefly inhabited,’ said Strype, ‘by Broom Men and Mumpers’; and Evelyn tells us (_Diary_ 5th December, 1683) that he assisted at the marriage, to her fifth husband, of a Mrs. Castle, who was ‘the daughter of one Burton, a broom-man . . . in Kent Street’ who had become not only rich, but Sheriff of Surrey. It was a poor neighbourhood corresponding to the present ‘old Kent-road, from Kent to Southwark and old London Bridge’ (Cunningham’s _London_).* Goldsmith himself refers to it in _The Bee_ for October 20, 1759, being the number immediately preceding that in which _Madam Blaize_ first appeared:—‘You then, O ye beggars of my acquaintance, whether in rags or lace; whether in _Kent-street_ or the Mall; whether at the Smyrna or St. Giles’s, might I advise as a friend, never seem in want of the favour which you solicit’ (p. 72). Three years earlier he had practised as ‘a physician, in a humble way’ in Bankside, Southwark, and was probably well acquainted with the humours of Kent Street. * In contemporary maps Kent (now Tabard) Street is shown extending between the present New Kent Road and Blackman Street. DESCRIPTION OF AN AUTHOR’S BEDCHAMBER.