l. 67. -----
"When come to the place", etc.
Cf. Boileau, 'ut supra', ll. 31-4:--
A peine etais-je entre, que ravi de me voir,
Mon homme, en m'embrassant, m'est venu recevoir;
Et montrant a mes yeux une allegresse entiere,
Nous n'avons, m'a-t-il dit, ni Lambert ni Moliere.
Lambert the musician, it may be added, had the special
reputation of accepting engagements which he never kept.
l. 72. -----
"and t'other with Thrale". Henry Thrale, the Southwark
brewer, and the husband of Mrs. Thrale, afterwards Mrs. Piozzi.
Johnson first made his acquaintance in 1765. Strahan complained
to Boswell that, by this connexion, Johnson 'was in a great
measure absorbed from the society of his old friends.' (Birkbeck
Hill's 'Boswell', 1887, iii. 225.) Line 72 in the first edition
reads --
The one at the House, and the other with THRALE.
l. 76. -----
"They both of them merry and authors like you".
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