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The Works of Lord Byron. Vol. 4

Note 553 — THE VISION OF JUDGMENT. BY QUEVEDO REDIVIVUS.

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{519}[For the King's habit of duplicating his phrases, compare—

"Whitbread, is't true? I hear, I hear You're of an ancient family renowned. What? what? I'm told that you're a limb Of Pym, the famous fellow Pym: What, Whitbread, is it true what people say? Son of a Roundhead are you? hæ? hæ? hæ? Thirtieth of January don't you feed? Yes, yes, you eat Calf's head, you eat Calf's head."

Instructions to a Celebrated Laureat, Peter Pindar's Works, 1812, i. 493.]

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