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[172-8] Some undone widow sits upon mine arm.--MASSINGER: _A New Way to pay Old Debts, act v. sc. 1._

[172-9] For drames always go by contraries.--LOVER: _The Angel's Whisper._

[172-10] Spick and span new.--FORD: _The Lover's Melancholy, act i. sc. 1._ FARQUHAR: _Preface to his Works._

[172-11] Plain as a pike-staff.--_Terence in English_ (1641). BUCKINGHAM: _Speech in the House of Lords, 1675._ _Gil Blas_ (Smollett's translation), _book xii. chap. viii._ BYROM: _Epistle to a Friend._

[173-1] See Shakespeare, page 51.

[173-2] So for a good old gentlemanly vice, I think I must take up with avarice.

BYRON: _Don Juan, canto i. stanza 216._

[173-3] There is no love lost between us.--CERVANTES: _Don Quixote,