"Miss Rickets of Crooked Lane..."See in text(Act The Second)
A clever play on words—Goldsmith plays on the word Rickets, which would have reminded the audience of Rickets, a disease caused by the lack of Vitamin C, that causes arms and legs to become deformed (Crooked Lane).
Marlow thinks Hardcastle must see him as a prideful fool, but Marlow thinks of himself as just a stupid fool, not quite as bad as a "swaggering puppy." Still, his future looks grim.
