l. 77. -----
"Along the billow'd main". Cf. 'The Captivity', Act ii,
I. 18.
l. 83. -----
"Oswego's dreary shores". Cf. 'The Traveller', l. 411.
l. 91. -----
"And with the avenging fight". Varied from Collins's
'Ode on the Death of Colonel Charles Ross at Fontenoy'.
l. 177. -----
"Its earliest bloom". Cf. Collins's 'Dirge in Cymbeline'.
SONG
FROM 'SHE STOOPS TO CONQUER.'
This thoroughly characteristic song, for a parallel to which one must go
to Congreve, or to the 'Here's to the maiden of bashful fifteen' of 'The
School for Scandal', has one grave defect, -- it is too good to have
been composed by Tony Lumpkin, who, despite his inability to read
anything but 'print-hand,' declares, in Act i. Sc. 2 of 'She Stoops to
Conquer', 1773, that he himself made it upon the ale-house ('The Three
Pigeons') in which he sings it, and where it is followed by the annexed
comments, directed by the author against the sentimentalists, who, in
'The Good Natur'd Man' of five years before, had insisted upon the
omission of the Bailiff scene:--
'OMNES.
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