Solander, of the British Museum, accompanied Cook.
l. 6. -----
"go simpling", i.e. gathering simples, or herbs. Cf.
'Merry Wives of Windsor', Act iii, Sc. 3:--
'-- These lisping hawthorn buds that...
smell like Bucklersbury in 'simple'-time.'
In the caricatures of the day Solander figured as 'The
'simpling' Macaroni.' (See note, p. 247, l. 31.)
l. 11. -----
"With Scythian stores". The scene of the play was laid
in Scythia ('v. supra').
l. 28. -----
"to make palaver", to hold a parley, generally with the
intention of cajoling. Two of Goldsmith's notes to Garrick in
1773 are endorsed by the actor -- 'Goldsmith's parlaver.'
(Forster's 'Life', 1871, ii. 397.)
l. 32. -----
"mercenary". Cradock gave the profits of 'Zobeide' to
Mrs. Yates. 'I mentioned the disappointment it would be to you'
-- she says in a letter to him dated April 26, 1771 --' as you
had generously given the emoluments of the piece to me.
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