Those perhaps overfrequent references to one of literature’s great characters contrast with the real-life figures who appear in several scenes.

At Smyrna, the cantaro, or kintal, contains 45 okes, or 100 rottoli. The batman is 6 okes, or 2400 drachms; and the oke is 400 drachms, and the rottolo = 180 drachms. The cantaro of 45 okes weighs 123 lbs. 4 oz. avoirdupois; and, therefore, the oke is = 2 lbs. 11 oz. 13 drs. avoirdupois.

Sittin' there all on her lonesome the whole day long, it's understandable she gets down in the dumps.

For one so rarely tun’d to fit all parts; For one to whom espous’d are all the Arts; Long have I sought for: but co’d never see Them all concenter’d in one man, but Thee.