wenty years since the
Brave old Boy was laid in Bredfield Churchyard. Two of his Father's
Lines might make Epitaph for some good soul:--

'Friend of the Poor, the Wretched, the Betray'd;
They cannot pay thee--but thou shalt be paid.'

Pas mal ca, eh!"

{45a} In a letter to me dated October 29th, 1871, FitzGerald says:--

"A suggestion that casually fell from old Spedding's lips (I forget
how long ago) occurred to me the other day. Instead of

'Do such business as the bitter day,'

read 'better day'--a certain Emendation, I think. I hope you take
Spedding into your Counsel; he might be induced to look over one Play at
a time though he might shrink from all in a Body; and I scarce ever heard
him conning a page of Shakespeare but he suggested something which was an
improvement--on Shakespeare himself, if not on his Editors--though don't
[tell] Spedding that I say so, for God's sake."

{45b} In 'Notes and Queries,' April 18th, 1874.

{48a} Lord Hertford

{48b} Frank Carr Beard, the friend and medical adviser of Dickens and
Wilkie Collins.

{49a} See Lockhart's 'Life of Scott,' vii. 394. 'About half-past one,
P.M., on the 21st of September, [1832], Sir Walter breathed his last, in
the presence of all his children. It was a beautiful day--so warm that
every window was wide open, and so perfectly still, that the sound of all
others most delicious to his ear, the gentle ripple of the Tweed over its
pebbles, was distinctly audible as we knelt around the bed, and his
eldest son kissed and closed his eyes.'

{49b} Dryburgh.

{49c} The North West Passage. The 'Old Sea Captain' was Trelawny.

{50a} See 'Letters,' ii. 173-4.

{50b} E. F. S. Pigott.

{52} See 'Letters,' ii. 172.

{53a} Not _Macmillan_, but _Cornhill Magazine_, Dec. 1863, 'On the
Stage.' See Letter of 24 Aug. 1875.

{53b} "Pasta, the great lyric tragedian, who, Mrs. Siddons said, was
capable of giving her lessons, replied to the observation, 'Vous avez du
beaucoup etudier l'antique.' 'Je l'ai beaucoup senti.'"--From Mrs.
Kemble's article 'On the Stage' ('Cornhill,' 1863), reprinted as an
Introduction to her Notes upon some of Shakespeare's Plays.

{53c} 'Causeries du Lundi,' xiv. 234.

{53d} Lettre de Viard a M. Walpole, in 'Lettres de Madame du Deffand,'
iv. 178 (Paris, 1824). FitzGerald probably read it in Ste. Beuve,
'Causeries du Lundi,' i. 405.

{54} Cedars, not yew. See Memoirs of Chorley, ii. 240.