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At New York the travellers will hear of the final defeat and death of the illustrious champion of freedom, Jonathon Higginbottom, and of the elevation of Ebenezer Hogsflesh to the perpetual Presidency.
King James I. mounting a horse that was unruly, said, "The de'il tak' my saul, sirrah, and ye be na quiet, I'll send ye to the five hundred kings in the House of Commons they'll soon tame you." On the road to Hastings are two hotels, nearly opposite one another, the one kept by a person of the name of Hogsflesh, the other by a person named Bacon.
The only evidence that we have of Lamb knowing Worthing is his "Mr. H.". That play turns upon the name Hogsflesh, afterwards changed to Bacon. H." in Vol. Many years ago. A little later Lamb says he was then fifteen. This would make the year 1790. Thou old Margate Hoy. This old sailing-boat gave way to a steam-boat, the Thames, some time after 1815.
I'll just tell you, that, after much vehement admiration, when his true name comes out, 'Hogsflesh, all the women shun him, avoid him, and not one can be found to change their name for him: that's the idea: how flat it is here! but how whimsical in the farce!
H.," produced on December 10, 1806; but very likely he added this reference as a symmetrical afterthought, for he would probably have visited Master Betty much earlier in his career, that phenomenon's first appearance at Covent Garden being two years before the advent of the ill-fated Hogsflesh. A quaint poetess. Mary Lamb. In line 17 the word "then" has been inserted by Lamb.
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