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. of the _Elegies of Tibullus_, but the authorship of which is not certainly known.

‘_Now this_,’ _etc._ Spenser, _Muiopotmos_, St. 22.

‘_To beguile the time_,’ _etc._ _Macbeth_, Act I. Sc. 5.

211. ‘_Squeak and gibber._’ _Hamlet_, Act I. Sc. 1.

_The St. James’s Chronicle._ Started in 1760 as a tri-weekly, independent Whig evening paper. It was for a time edited by James Mill.

212 note. Mrs. Radcliffe, the novelist, was married in 1787 to William Radcliffe, an Oxford graduate and a student of law, described by Sir Walter Scott (_Lives of the Novelists_) as ‘afterwards proprietor and editor of the _English Chronicle_.’

213. _The Morning Chronicle._ Founded June 28, 1769. The early notable editors were William Woodfall (1746–1803), James Perry (1756–1821), who was editor from 1789 to 1817, and John Black (1783–1855). For Perry cf. vol. VI. _Table Talk_, p. 292.

_Porson._ Richard Porson (1759–1808) was Perry’s brother-in-law.

_Jekyll._ Joseph Jekyll (d. 1837) contributed many of his jokes to _The Morning Chronicle_.

214. _The Marquis Marialva._ _Gil Blas_,