87-8, as 'An
Epilogue intended for Mrs. Bulkley'. Percy did not remember for what
play it was intended; but it is plainly (see note to l. 40) the second
epilogue for 'She Stoops to Conquer' referred to in the letter printed
in this volume.
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"There is a place, so Ariosto sings". 'The poet
alludes to the thirty-fourth canto of 'The Orlando furioso'.
Ariosto, as translated by Mr. Stewart Rose, observes of the
'lunar world';
There thou wilt find, if thou wilt thither post,
Whatever thou on earth beneath hast lost.
Astolpho undertakes the journey; discovers a portion of his
own sense; and, in an ample flask, the lost wits of Orlando.'
(Bolton Corney.) Cf. also 'Rape of the Lock',
Canto v, ll. 113-14:
Some thought it mounted to the Lunar sphere,
Since all things lost on earth are treasur'd there.
Lord Chesterfield also refers to the 'happy extravagancy'
of Astolpho's journey in his 'Letters', 1774, i.
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