'
_Hudibras_, i. I. 45.
[822] 'Among the sentiments which almost every man changes as he
advances into years is the expectation of uniformity of character.'
_The Rambler_, No. 70. See _ante_, i. 161, note 2.
[823] See _ante_, iii. 55.
[824] After this follows a line which Boswell has omitted:--'Then
rises fresh, pursues his wonted game.' _Cato_, act i. sc. 4.
[825] Boswell was right, and Oglethorpe wrong; the exclamation in
Suetonius is, 'Utinam _populus_ Romanus unam cervicem haberet.' Calig.
xxx.--CROKER.
[826] 'Macaroon (_macarone_, Italian), a coarse, rude, low fellow;
whence, _macaronick_ poetry, in which the language is purposely
corrupted.' Johnson's _Dictionary_. '_Macaroni_, probably from old
Italian _maccare, to bruise, to batter, to pester_; Derivative,
_macaronic_, i.e. in a confused or mixed state (applied to a jumble of
languages).' Skeat's _Etymological Diet_.
[827] _Polemo-middinia_, as the Commentator explains, is _Proelium in
sterquilinio commissum_. In the opening lines the poet thus calls on
the Skipperii, or _Skippers_:--
'Linquite skellatas botas, shippasque picatas,
Whistlantesque simul fechtam memorate blodeam,
Fechtam terribilem, quam marvellaverat omnis
Banda Deum, quoque Nympharum Cockelshelearum.
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