After the first edition of the Lives, Mr. Malone, whose love of justice is equal to his accuracy, made, in my hearing, the same remark to Johnson; yet he omitted to correct the erroneous statement.

But Mr. Malone has obliged me with the following note concerning it: 'Many persons having doubts concerning this fact, I applied to Dr. Johnson to learn on what authority he asserted it.

' About two days after his death, the following very agreeable account was communicated to Mr. Malone, in a letter by the Honourable John Byng, to whom I am much obliged for granting me permission to introduce it in my work.

MALONE. See ante, p. 58.

No doubt Malone, who says, however: 'On the whole the publick is indebted to her for her lively, though very inaccurate and artful, account of Dr. Johnson.'

Prior's Malone, p. 364.

We have therefore three reports of what he saidone from Mrs. Thrale indirectly, one from her directly, and the third from Malone.

Consolation is clearly a blunder, Malone's conjecture mortification seems absurd.

The young Irishman won it and carried his property to his stateroom, and when the skipper next applied for a drink, Malone answered: "Divil a drop will ye get, till we are safe in Baltimore."

Of course, Terrence Malone had played a practical joke on the English lieutenant, and while the latter was passing the night on the gloomiest island of all the Maryland coast, the former was sweetly dreaming of dear old Ireland, in the most comfortable bed the tavern afforded.

Terrence Malone, with all his frivolity and tendency toward ludicrousness, had a remarkable amount of shrewdness in his composition.

Northcote (Life of Reynolds, ii. 283) says that one day at Sir Joshua's dinner-table, when his host praised Malone very highly for his laborious edition of Shakespeare, he (Northcote) 'rather hastily replied, "What a very despicable creature must that man be who thus devotes himself, and makes another man his god;" when Boswell, who sat at my elbow, and was not in my thoughts at the time, cried out "Oh!

According to Malone the attacks made on Hawkesworth in the newspapers for this passage 'affected him so much that from low spirits he was seized with a nervous fever, which on account of the high living he had indulged in had the more power on him; and he is supposed to have put an end to his life by intentionally taking an immoderate dose of opium.'

Prior's Malone, p. 441.

I have little doubt that it was Malone.

This was a compliment Boswell was likely to pay to Malone, to whom he dedicated this book.

Malone was a versifier.

See Prior's Malone, p. 463.

Baretti told Malone that, having proposed to teach Johnson Italian, they went over a few stanzas of Ariosto, and Johnson then grew weary.

Prior's Malone, p. 160.

'One of the best critics of our age' is, I believe, Malone.

Malone erroneously states that he was the writer of, or was concerned in, thirty plays; according to information which he himself furnishes, forty-two are, either wholly or in part, to be assigned to Chettle.

Malone supposed that Shakespeare, with whom Chettle had then recently become acquainted, was alluded to in the same tract.

Malone thought that this was the same play as "Troilus and Cressida" before mentioned.

[Footnote 56: A virginal, says Mr. Malone, was strung like a spinnet, and shaped like a pianoforte: the mode of playing on this instrument was therefore similar to that of the organ.]