[54] 'Pope:' a pleasing protege of Mrs Clive.

[55] 'Vincent:' Mrs Vincent, a tolerable actress and a fine singer.

[56] 'Arne:' a fine musician, but no writer.

[57] 'Brent:' a female scholar of Arne's, very popular as Polly in the
'Beggars Opera.'

[58] 'Beard and Vincent:' famous singers.

[59] 'Yates:' Anna Maria Yates, the wife of Richard Yates, mentioned in
a preceding note.

[60] 'Hart:' Mrs Hart, a demirep, married to one Reddish, who, after
her death, wedded Mrs Canning, mother of the great statesman.

[61] 'Bride:' another beautiful, but disreputable actress.

[62] 'Stale flower,' &c.: an unmanly allusion to Mrs Palmer, the
daughter of Mrs Pritchard, who was greatly inferior to her mother.

[63] 'Cibber:' sister to Arne, and wife to the once notorious
Theophilus Cibber, the son of the hero of the 'Dunciad.' She was no
better in character than many actresses of that day; but sang so
plaintively, that a bishop who heard her once cried out, 'Woman, thy
sins be forgiven thee!'

[64] 'Pritchard:' according to Johnson, 'in private a vulgar idiot,
but who, on the stage, seemed to become inspired with gentility and