[A variation in the Aldine edition gives the line--
"There's Coley and Williams, and Howard and Hiff."
MR. BOLTON CORNEY, in his unrivalled edition of Goldsmith's _Poetical
Works_, 1846, has furnished the following note:--"_Howard_=H. Howard?
author of _The Choice Spirits Museum_, 1765; _Coley_=Colman, says
Horace Walpole; _H--rth_=Hogarth? a surgeon of Golden Square;
_Hiff_=Paul Hiffernan, M.D., author of _Dramatic Genius_, &c." Mr.
Peter Cunningham, in his forthcoming edition of _Goldsmith_, will
probably tell us more.
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