No, no: I’ve other contests, etc. This couplet is not in the first version. The old building of the College of Physicians was in Warwick Lane; and the reference is to the long-pending dispute, occasionally enlivened by personal collision, between the Fellows and Licentiates respecting the exclusion of certain of the latter from Fellowships. On this theme Bonnell Thornton, himself an M.B. like Goldsmith, wrote a satiric additional canto to Garth’s _ Dispensary_, entitled _The Battle of the Wigs_, long extracts from which are printed in _The Gentleman’s Magazine_ for March, 1768, p. 132. The same number also reviews _The Siege of the Castle of Æsculapius, an heroic Comedy, as it is acted in Warwick-Lane_. Goldsmith’s couplet is, however, best illustrated by the title of one of Sayer’s caricatures, _The March of the Medical Militants to the Siege of Warwick-Lane-Castle in the Year_ 1767. The quarrel was finally settled in favour of the college in June, 1771. Go, ask your manager. Colman, the manager of Covent Garden, was not a prolific, although he was a happy writer of prologues and epilogues. The quotation is from _King Lear_, Act iii, Sc. 4. In the first version the last line runs:— And view with favour, the ‘Good-natur’d Man.’ EPILOGUE TO ‘THE SISTER.’ _The Sister_, produced at Covent Garden February 18, 1769, was a comedy by Mrs. Charlotte Lenox or Lennox, ‘an ingenious lady,’ says _The Gentleman’s Magazine_ for April in the same year, ‘well known in the literary world by her excellent writings, particularly the Female Quixote, and Shakespeare illustrated. . . . The audience expressed their disapprobation of it with so much clamour and appearance of prejudice, that she would not suffer an attempt to exhibit it a second time (p. 199).’ According to the