book iv

. chap. xxiii._ GOLDSMITH: _She Stoops to Conquer,

## act iv._ GARRICK: _Correspondence, 1759._ FIELDING: _The Grub

Street Opera, act i. sc. 4._

[173-4] See Shakespeare, page 123.

[173-5] These lines are introduced into _Macbeth, act iv. sc. 1._ According to Steevens, "the song was, in all probability, a traditional one." Collier says, "Doubtless it does not belong to Middleton more than to Shakespeare." Dyce says, "There seems to be little doubt that 'Macbeth' is of an earlier date than 'The Witch.'"

[173-6] See Chaucer, page 5.

[173-7] He 'as had a stinger.--BEAUMONT AND FLETCHER: _Wit without Money, act iv. sc. 1._

[173-8] See Shakespeare, page 69.

[174-1] _A Health to the Gentlemanly Profession of Servingmen_ (1598). Turn over a new leaf.--DEKKER: _The Honest Whore, part ii . act i. sc. 2._ BURKE: _Letter to Mrs. Haviland._

[174-2] See Shakespeare, page 128.

[174-3] A happy accident.--MADAME DE STAËL: _L' Allemagne, chap. xvi._ CERVANTES: _Don Quixote, book iv .