"Squire Groome is no national characteristic of England, but a general representative of any person of the three kingdoms, who likes horse-racing, drinking, &c. preferably to any other happiness; but why he should be the type of the English nation, I cannot see, and therefore leave it to the very jumbling author to explain in the best manner he can; for objects receive strange aspects, as they pass through the camera obscura of his intellect."
A Scotsman's Remarks on the Farce of Love a La Mode, Scene by Scene.
<u>A Scotsman's Remarks on the Farce of Love a La Mode, Scene by Scene.</u> (London: Printed for J. Burd, 1760). &lt;<a href="http://name.umdl.umich.edu/004901127.0001.000">Link to ECCO-TCP</a>&gt;