[Footnote 4: 
  “Imperfectus adhuc infans genetricis ab alvo
  Eripitur, patrioque tener (si credere dignum est)
  Insuitur femori—­
  Tutaque bis geniti sunt incunabula Bacchi.

  “Metamorph. lib. iii., 310.”]

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Page 48.  ALL FOOLS’ DAY.

London Magazine, April, 1821.

Page 49, line 1. Empedocles.  Lamb appended this footnote in the London Magazine:—­

  He who, to be deem’d
  A god, leap’d fondly into Etna’s flames.

Paradise Lost, III., lines 470-471 [should be 469-470].

Page 49, line 5. Cleombrotus.  Lamb’s London Magazine footnote:—­

  He who, to enjoy
  Plato’s Elysium, leap’d into the sea.

Paradise Lost, III., lines 471-472.

Page 49, line 8. Plasterers at Babel.  Lamb’s London Magazine note:—­

  The builders next of Babel on the plain
  Of Sennaar.

Paradise Lost, III., lines 466-467.

Page 49, line 10. My right hand.  Lamb, it is probably unnecessary to remind the reader, stammered too.

Page 49, line 13 from foot. Duns, Duns Scotus (1265?-1308?), metaphysician, author of De modis significandi sive Grammatica Speculativa and other philosophic works.  Known as Doctor Subtilis.  There was nothing of Duns in the London Magazine; the sentence ran:  “Mr. Hazlitt, I cannot indulge you in your definitions.”  This was at a time when Lamb and Hazlitt were not on good terms.

Page 49, last line. Honest R——­.  Lamb’s Key gives “Ramsay, London Library, Ludgate Street; now extinct.”  I have tried in vain to find out more about Ramsay.  The London Library was established at 5 Ludgate Street in 1785.  Later, the books were lodged at Charles Taylor’s house in Hatton Garden, and were finally removed to the present London Institute in Finsbury Circus.

Page 50, line 6. Good Granville S——­.  Lamb’s Key gives Granville Sharp.  This was the eccentric Granville Sharp, the Quaker abolitionist (1735-1813).

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Page 51.  A QUAKER’S MEETING.

London Magazine, April, 1821.

Lamb’s connection with Quakers was somewhat intimate throughout his life.  In early days he was friendly with the Birmingham Lloyds—­Charles, Robert and Priscilla, of the younger generation, and their father, Charles Lloyd, the banker and translator of Horace and Homer (see Charles Lamb and the Lloyds, 1898); and later with Bernard Barton, the Quaker poet of Woodbridge.  Also he had loved from afar Hester Savory, the subject of his poem “Hester” (see Vol.  IV.).  A passage from a letter written in February, 1797, to Coleridge, bears upon this essay:—­“Tell Lloyd I have had thoughts of turning Quaker, and have been reading, or am rather just beginning to read, a most capital