[306] Mrs. Piozzi records (Anec. p. 192) that he said ’a long time after my poor mother’s death, I heard her voice call Sam.’  She is so inaccurate that most likely this is merely her version of the story that Boswell has recorded above.  See also ante, i. 405.  Lord Macaulay made more of this story of the voice than it could well bear—­’Under the influence of his disease, his senses became morbidly torpid, and his imagination morbidly active.  At one time he would stand poring on the town clock without being able to tell the hour.  At another, he would distinctly hear his mother, who was many miles off, calling him by his name.  But this was not the worst.’  Macaulay’s Writings and Speeches, ed. 1871, p. 374.

[307]

’One wife is too much for most husbands to bear, But two at a time there’s no mortal can bear.’

     Act iii. sc. 4.

[308] ’I think a person who is terrified with the imagination of ghosts and spectres much more reasonable than one who, contrary to the reports of all historians, sacred and profane, ancient and modern, and to the traditions of all nations, thinks the appearance of spirits fabulous and groundless.’ The Spectator, No. 110.

[309] St. Matthew, chap. xxvii. vv. 52, 53.  BOSWELL.

[310] Garrick died on Jan. 20, 1779.

[311] Garrick called her Nine, (the Nine Muses).  ‘Nine,’ he said, ’you are a Sunday Woman.’  H. More’s Memoirs, i. 113.

[312] See vol. iii. p. 331.  BOSWELL.

[313] See ante, ii. 325, note 3.

[314] Boswell is quoting from Johnson’s eulogium on Garrick in his Life of Edmund Smith.  Works, vii. 380.  See ante, i. 81.

[315] How fond she and her husband had been is shewn in a letter, in which, in answer to an invitation, he says:—­’As I have not left Mrs. Garrick one day since we were married, near twenty-eight years, I cannot now leave her.’ Garrick Corres. ii. 150.  ’Garrick’s widow is buried with him.  She survived him forty-three years—­“a little bowed-down old woman, who went about leaning on a gold-headed cane, dressed in deep widow’s mourning, and always talking of her dear Davy.” (Pen and Ink Sketches, 1864).’  Stanley’s Westminster Abbey, ed. 1868, p. 305.

[316] Love’s Labour’s Lost, act ii. sc. i.

[317] See ante, ii. 461.

[318] Horace Walpole (Letters, vii. 346) describes Hollis as ’a most excellent man, a most immaculate Whig, but as simple a poor soul as ever existed, except his editor, who has given extracts from the good creature’s diary that are very near as anile as Ashmole’s.  There are thanks to God for reaching every birthday, ... and thanks to Heaven for her Majesty’s being delivered of a third or fourth prince, and God send he may prove a good man.’  See also Walpole’s Journal of the Reign of George III, i. 287.  Dr. Franklin wrote much more highly of him.  Speaking of what he had done, he said:—­’It is prodigious the quantity of good that may be done by one man, if he will make a business of it.’  Franklin’s Memoirs, ed. 1818, iii. 135.