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"Pale, but not cadaverous:" Milton's two elder daughters are said to have robbed him of his books, besides cheating and plaguing him in the economy of his house, etc., etc. His feelings on such an outrage, both as a parent and a scholar, must have been singularly painful. Hayley compares him to Lear. See part third, Life of Millon, by W. Hayley (or Hailey, as spelt in the edition before me).

[The Life of Milton, by William Hailey (sic), Esq. Basil, 1799, p. 186.]

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"Would he subside into a hackney LaureateA scribbling, self-sold, soul-hired, scorned Iscariot?"

I doubt if "Laureate" and "Iscariot" be good rhymes, but must say, as Ben Jonson did to Sylvester, who challenged him to rhyme with -"I, John Sylvester, Lay with your sister." Jonson answered-"I, Ben Jonson, lay with wife." Sylvester answered, "That is not rhyme."-"No," said Ben Jonson; "but it is true."

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[The pantomime which Byron and his readers "all had seen,' was an abbreviated and bowdierised version of Shadwell's Liberis "First produced by Mr Garrick on the boards of Drury Lane Theatre," it was recomposed by Charles Anthony Delpini, and performed at the Royalty Theatre, in Goodman's Fields, in 1787It was entitled Don Juan; or, The Libertine Destroved; A Tragic Pantomimical Entertainment, In Two Acts. Music Composed by Mr Gluck. At the end of the pantomime "the Furies gather round him [Don Juan), and the Tyrant being bound in chains is hurried away and thrown into flames." The Devil is conspicuous by his absence.]

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