Some think he writes Cinna—he owns to Panurge. ‘Panurge’ and ‘Cinna’ are signatures which were frequently to be found at the foot of letters addressed to the _Public Advertiser_ in 1770–1 in support of Lord Sandwich and the Government. They are said to have been written by Dr. W. Scott, Vicar of Simonburn, Northumberland, and chaplain of Greenwich Hospital, both of which preferments had been given him by Sandwich. In 1765 he had attacked Lord Bute and his policy over the signature of ‘Anti-Sejanus.’ ‘Sandwich and his parson Anti-Sejanus [are] hooted off the stage’—writes Walpole to Mann, March 21, 1766. According to Prior, it was Scott who visited Goldsmith in his Temple chambers, and invited him to ‘draw a venal quill’ for Lord North’s administration. Goldsmith’s noble answer, as reported by his reverend friend, was—‘I can earn as much as will supply my wants without writing for any party; the assistance therefore you offer is unnecessary to me.’ (_Life_, 1837, ii. 278.) There is a caricature portrait of Scott at p. 141 of _The London Museum_ for February, 1771, entitled ‘Twitcher’s Advocate,’ ‘Jemmy Twitcher’ being the nickname of Lord Sandwich. Swinging, great, huge. ‘Bishop Lowth has just finished the Dramas, and sent me word, that although I have paid him the most _swinging_ compliment he ever received, he likes the whole book more than he can say.’ (_Memoirs of Hannah More_, 1834, i. 236.) pasty. The first version has Ven’son.’ So there I sat, etc. This couplet is not in the first version. And, ‘Madam,’ quoth he. Mr. Lobban again quotes Swift’s _Grand Question Debated_:— And ‘Madam,’ says he, ‘if such dinners you give You’ll ne’er want for parsons as long as you live.’ These slight resemblances, coupled with the more obvious likeness of the ‘Raphaels, Correggios, and stuff’ of _ Retaliation_ (ll. 145–6) to the _Noueds_ and _ Bluturks_ and _Omurs_ and stuff’ (also pointed out by Mr. Lobban) are interesting, because they show plainly that Goldsmith remembered the works of Swift far better than _The New Bath Guide_, which has sometimes been supposed to have set the tune to the _Haunch_ and _Retaliation_. ‘may this bit be my poison.’ The gentleman in _She Stoops to Conquer_, Act i, who is ‘obligated to dance a bear.’ Uses the same asseveration. Cf. also Squire Thornhill’s somewhat similar formula in chap. vii of _The Vicar of Wakefield_, 1766, i. 59. ‘The tripe,’ quoth the Jew, etc. The first version reads— ‘Your Tripe!’ quoth the _Jew_, ‘if the truth I may speak, I could eat of this Tripe seven days in the week.’ Re-echoed, i.e. ‘returned’ in the first edition.