Book II

. Ep. I. 108.

THE BEGGAR’S OPERA

373. ‘_Vanity, chaotic Vanity._’ Hazlitt may have had in mind the lines in _Romeo and Juliet_ (Act I. Sc. 1), ‘O heavy lightness! serious vanity! misshapen chaos!’

374. ‘_Waste her sweetness_,’ _etc._ Cf. Gray’s _Elegy_, 56.

_Splenetic_ ‘[splenitive] _and rash_.’ _Hamlet_, Act V. Sc. 1.

_Blanchard._ William Blanchard (1769–1835), for long a member of the Covent Garden Company.

‘_And when the date_,’ _etc._ Butler, _Hudibras_,