And brave Prince William. William Augustus, Duke of Cumberland, 1721–65. The ‘lamp-black face’ would seem to imply that the portrait was a silhouette. In the letter quoted on p. 200 it is ‘Prussia’s monarch’ (i.e. Frederick the Great). With beer and milk arrears. See the lines relative to the landlord in Goldsmith’s above-quoted letter to his brother. In another letter of August 14, 1758, to Robert Bryanton, he describes himself as ‘in a garret writing for bread, and expecting to be dunned for a milk score.’ Hogarth’s _Distrest Poet_, 1736, it will be remembered, has already realized this expectation. A cap by night—a stocking all the day. ‘With this last line,’ says _The Citizen of the World_, 1762, i. 121, ‘he [the author] seemed so much elated, that he was unable to proceed: “There gentlemen, cries he, there is a description for you; Rab[e]lais’s bed-chamber is but a fool to it: _A cap by night—a stocking all the day!_ There is sound and sense, and truth, and nature in the trifling compass of ten little syllables.”’ (Letter xxix.) Cf. also _The Deserted Village_, l. 230:— A bed by night, a chest of drawers by day. If Goldsmith’s lines did not belong to 1759, one might suppose he had in mind the later _Pauvre Diable_ of his favourite Voltaire. (See also APPENDIX B.) ON SEEING MRS. ** PERFORM IN THE CHARACTER OF ****. These verses, intended for a specimen of the newspaper Muse, are from Letter lxxxii of _The Citizen of the World_, 1762, ii. 87, first printed in _The Public Ledger_, October 21, 1760. ON THE DEATH OF THE RIGHT HON. *** From Letter ciii of _The Citizen of the World_, 1762, ii. 164, first printed in _The Public Ledger_, March 4, 1761. The verses are given as a ‘specimen of a poem on the decease of a great man.’ Goldsmith had already used the trick of the final line of the quatrain in _An Elegy on Mrs. Mary Blaize_, ante, p. 198. AN EPIGRAM. From Letter cx of _The Citizen of the World_, 1762, ii. 193, first printed in _The Public Ledger_, April 14, 1761. It had, however, already been printed in the ‘Ledger’, ten days before. Goldsmith’s animosity to Churchill (cf. note to l. 41 of the dedication to _The Traveller_) was notorious; but this is one of his doubtful pieces. virtue. ‘Charity’ (_Author’s note_). bounty. ‘Settled at One Shilling—the Price of the Poem’ (_Author’s note_). TO G. C. AND R. L. From the same letter as the preceding. George Colman and Robert Lloyd of the _St. James’s Magazine_ were supposed to have helped Churchill in _The Rosciad_, the ‘it’ of the epigram. TRANSLATION OF A SOUTH AMERICAN ODE.