'
The name, as may be guessed, comes from the Italian dish first
made fashionable by the 'Macaroni Club,' being afterwards
applied by extension to 'the younger and gayer part of our
nobility and gentry, who, at the same time that they gave in to
the luxuries of eating, went equally into the extravagancies of
dress.' ('Macaroni and Theatrical Magazine', Oct. 1772.) Cf. Sir
Benjamin Backbite's later epigram in 'The School for Scandal',
1777, Act ii, Sc. 2:--
Sure never was seen two such beautiful ponies;
Other horses are clowns, but these 'macaronies':
To give them this title I'm sure can't be wrong,
Their legs are so slim and their tails are so long.
l. 36. -----
"Their hands are only lent to the Heinel". See note to
l. 28, p. 85.
EPILOGUE INTENDED FOR 'SHE STOOPS TO CONQUER.'
This epilogue, given by Goldsmith to Dr. Percy in MS., was first
published in the 'Miscellaneous Works' of 1801, ii.
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