NOTES TO VOL. VII

PAGE 1. Mr. Methuen, later Sir Paul Methuen.

PAGE 3.

Motto. Horace, Epist. I. i. xviii. 6.

See B. I.

Dedica

tion,

PAGE 5. In talking, etc.` King John, I. i. 202-3, 205 [“ And No. 474.

66

talking" ; But this "],

424, 429, and 440.

PAGE 7. Infirmary. See Nos.
-This letter has been ascribed to Steele's friend Richard
Parker, Fellow of Merton. His criticism of Steele's first literary
effort (a comedy) induced the latter to withhold it from the
public. To him also Edmund Smith submitted his translation
of Longinus (Johnson, Lives, ii. 242). He is probably the “old
friend who contributed two letters (in a similar strain) to the
Tatler (Nos. 89 and 112), to which Mr. Bickerstaff gave the name
of "Right Country Letters." See a letter by J. R.' in Steele's
Epist. Corresp. ii. 595.

-Mr. Campbell. See note, vol. v. p. 285.

-Jacobus. A gold coin, struck in the reign of James I., worth about twenty-five shillings.

PAGE 8. Motto. Terence, Eunuchus, I. i. 12-13 (57-8).

PAGE II. Motto. Horace, Ars Poet. 41.

PAGE 12. From the Dispensary. Garth's Dispensary, ii. 95-6.

"Hourly his learn'd impertinence affords

A barren superfluity of words.'

PAGE 13. Doway and Denain. Douai capitulated to Marlborough and Prince Eugene on 14th June 1710. Villars defeated the Earl of Albemarle before Denain on 24th July 1712, and soon thereafter captured Douai.

-In A is advertised an Essay towards a History of Dancing, the book referred to in No. 466. See note, vol. vi. p. 297.

PAGE 14. PAGE 15. PAGE 17. PAGE 18.

PAGE 19.

Motto. Horace, Odes, II. iv. 5-8.

No. 475.

No. 476.

No. 477.

No. 478,

who advises his Son. See Osborne's

Wise and London. See note, vol. i. p. 314.
Vernal Delight. See No. 393 (vol. v.).
Motto. Horace, Ars Poet. 71-2.

The author

Advice to a Son.

-A Baby dress'd. See No. 277 (vol. iv.).

PAGE 20. And perhaps the Ballance, etc. Steele would not have been surprised at the turn in Parisian fashion at the close of the

See the anecdotes in Xenophon's Symposium, ii.

-Those old Manuscripts. See No. 76 (vol. i.) and Nos. 84 and

Henry de Bracton, De

No. 480.

97 (vol ii.).

No. 480.

No. 481.

No. 482.

No. 483,

No. 484.

PAGE 30. M. D. "This letter was written by Mr. Robert Harper, of Lincoln's-Inn, an eminent conveyancer. Steele omitted some parts of it, and made some alterations in it; at least the author's original draft of it in his letter-book, communicated to the annotator by the Rev. Mr. Harper of the British Museum, is somewhat different. This letter was sent to the Spectator, Aug. 9, 1712, as appears from the author's autograph endorsement" (Note in Chalmers's edition).

PAGE 31.

Motto. Horace, Sat. I. vii. 19-21.

One of Mr. Southern's Plays. The Fatal Marriage, or the Innocent Adultery, V. i. See note in vol. ii. p. 327.

Count Rechteren and Monsieur Mesnager. An account of this
petty trouble arising from the insulting behaviour of the servants of
M. Mesnager, the French Plenipotentiary, and the reprisals by
those of Count Rechteren, deputy for Overyssel, will be found in
the Mémoires de Torcy (iii. 411). Most of the details are given in
a note in Mr. Henry Morley's edition of The Spectator.
PAGE 33. Motto. Lucretius, De Rerum Natura, iii. 11.
Bracton. See No. 479, supra.

PAGE 36. Motto. Horace, Ars Poet. 191-2. This is also the motto of
No. 315.

PAGE 38. Diagoras. The story will be found in Cicero, De Natura

Deorum, iii. 37.

PAGE 39. Clitobus. A slip for Cleobis.

Herodotus, I. xxxi.

PAGE 40.

Motto. Pliny, Epist. vi. 23-5.

The story is told in

PAGE 41. Abest virtute, etc. Horace, Ars Poet. 370-1.
- Multum sanguinis, etc. Pliny, Epist. v. 17.

PAGE 42. In the Modesty, etc. A Midsummer Night's Dream, V. i.

101-3.

PAGE 44.

No. 485,

PAGE 47.
PAGE 48.

No. 486,
No. 487.

No. 488.

See note, vol. vi. p. 293.

Motto. Quintus Curtius, vii. 8-15.
Mr. Short's. See vol. vi. p. 283.
A young Woman on Horseback.
Motto. Horace, Sat. I. ii. 37-8.
Motto. Petronius Arbiter, Satyricon, civ.

PAGE 51.
PAGE 52. Religio Medici. ii. II.
PAGE 54.

Virgil. En. iv. 466-8.

Plutarch. Essay on Superstition, iii.
Tertullian. De Anima, cap. 45-9.

PAGE 55. Motto. Horace, Sat. II. iii. 156.

See No. 445 and note (vol. vi. p. 294).

T. W. Dr. Thomas Walker, headmaster of the Charterhouse when Steele and Addison were schoolboys there.

"The Author of the Spectator having received the Pastoral Hymn No. 489, in his 441st Paper, set to Musick by one of the most Eminent Composers of our own Country, and by a Foreigner, who has not put his Name to his ingenious Letter, thinks himself obliged to return his Thanks to those Gentlemen for the Honour they have done him."

- Lately a great ornament. Identified as the dandy and littérateur, Anthony Henley (son of Sir Robert Henley). He is frequently mentioned by Swift; Garth dedicated the Dispensary to him; he contributed the "Life of the Music Master (Tom D'Urfey)" to the Memoirs of Martinus Scriblerus, and wrote some pieces for the Tatler. See B. I.

Who was head of a College. Dr Thomas Goodwin, President
of Magdalen College, Oxford. See B. I.

With half-a-dozen Night-Caps. According to Anthony à Wood,
Goodwin was called "Nine-caps" by the irreverent undergraduates
because of the elaborate precautions he took against cold in the head.
In former Papers. Cf. Nos. 381, 387.

PAGE 78. An eminent Pagan Writer. See Plutarch, Περὶ Δεισι

The Self-Tormentor, i.e. Heautontimorumenos. Dryden calls

it the Self-Punisher (Essay of Dram. Poesy).

PAGE 104. I am a man, etc. A transcript of the familiar--

Homo sum: humani nihil a me alienum puto.

-Heauton. I. i. 25.)

- I have heard. Editors have referred, rather vaguely, to the well-known passage from Fletcher of Saltoun, "I knew a very wise man that believed that if a man were permitted to make all the ballads he need not care who should make the laws of a nation." The sentiment recalls some passages in Sidney's Apologie for Poetrie.

When I came to the house, etc. Terence, Heauton. II. iii

275, etc.

No. 502, PAGE 106.

The Country-Wake, by Dogget (see B. I.), was produced at
Lincoln's Inn Fields in 1696, with the author in the part of Young
Hob. It was revived, in altered form, as a farce at Drury Lane, on
Oct. 6, 1711 (Genest, ii. 487-8). It had been acted at Drury Lane
a few days (Sept. 23) before the appearance of this paper.
farce was printed in 1715, with Dogget's name on the title-page;
yet it has been ascribed to Colley Cibber.

-Penkethman. See note, vol. i. p. 326.
-Bullock. See note, vol. i. p. 328.
-Dicky. Henry Norris, the actor.

The

See B. I. In the cast for

Steele's Funeral, or Grief à la Mode at Drury Lane (1702) Penkethman played Trim; Bullock, Kate Matchlock; and Norris, Mrs. Fardingale.

No. 503, PAGE 107.

Motto. Terence, Eunuchus, II. iii. 5.

The Misbehaviour of People at Church. Cf. Nos. 50, 53, 129, 134, 158, 270, 272, 282, 284, 344, 460, etc. Mr. Dobson recalls the fact that "in St James's Chapel the ogling and sighing rose at one time to such a height that Bishop Burnet petitioned the Princess Anne to be allowed to raise the pews" (Selections from Steele, p. 478).

PAGE 109. Charles Mather. See No. 328 and B. I No. 504. PAGE III. Motto. Terence, Eunuchus, III. i. 36.

-Questions and Commands. See vol. iii. p. 283. Many a time have I missed a ball, and chose to wander in unfrequented Solitudes, when I might have been a King at Questions and Commands." Steele's Lover, No. 13. The game is described in W. C. Sydney's Social Life in England, p. 392. —A Shape. Cf. No. 58 (vol. i. p. 216, and note, p. 339). PAGE 112. Your biters. See note, vol. i. p. 335.

No. 505, PAGE 114. Motto. Ennius, quoted in Cicero, De Divinatione, i. 58, 132. The seventh line (Qui sui, etc.), also by Ennius, is an interpolation. It, too, is quoted in the De Divinatione (i. 40, 88). PAGE 116. A Scotch Highlander. A hit at Duncan Campbell, the fortune-teller (see note, supra, p. 311). So, too, is the concluding 'N. B.'-"I am not dumb." The nom-de-guerre 'Trophonius' is the name of the builder of the first temple of Apollo at Delphi and himself the possessor of an oracle. See Fontenelle's Dialogues des Morts (1683) and Histoire des Oracles (1687); and Hughes's note to Dialogue xi. in his translation of the former.

No. 506, PAGE 118. Motto. Martial, Epigr. IV. xiii. 7-10.

-In one of our modern Comedies. Steele's Funeral, or Grief à la Mode, iii., where Mademoiselle d'Epingle shocks Lady Harriot by offering to undress before her and Mr. Campley.

No. 507, PAGE 121. Motto. Juvenal, Sat. ii. 46.

No. 508.

No. 509.

PAGE 124. Pompey. See Plutarch's Life.
-Motto. Cornelius Nepos, i. 8.
PAGE 127. Milton, Par. Lost, i. 659-662.
PAGE 128. Motto. Terence, Heauton. III. iii. 19.

-Keep your Shop. “I garnished my shop, for want of plate, with wholesome thriftie sentences; as 'Touchstone, keepe thy shoppe, and thy shoppe will keepe thee"" Eastward Ho (1605), I. i. PAGE 131. Duke of Buckingham'. . . Manufacture of Glass.

In

1670 a number of Venetian glass-blowers settled in Lambeth, and, No. 509.
with the aid of the Duke of Buckingham, established a lucrative
business in the making of plate-glass. Cf. Steele's Lover, No. 34:
"It is a modest computation, that England gains fifty thousand
pounds a year by exporting this commodity for the service of
foreign nations: the whole owing to the inquisitive and mechanic
as well as liberal genius of the late Duke of Buckingham." See the
references to an earlier venture in Pepys's Diary (Globe edition,
p. 10, note).

PAGE 131. Mr. Gumley. Earlier in the paper in the Lover (quoted
supra), Steele writes: "The place I am going to mention is Mr.
Gumley's glass-gallery over the New Exchange. I little thought
I should ever in the LOVER have occasion to talk of such a thing
as trade; but when a man walks in that illustrious room, and
reflects what incredible improvement our artificers of England have
made in the manufacture of glass in thirty years time, and can sup-
pose such an alteration of our affairs in other parts of commerce, it
is demonstrable that the nations, who are possessed of mines of gold,
are but drudges to a people, whose arts and industry, with other
advantages natural to us, may make itself the shop of the world."
PAGE 132. Motto. Terence, Eunuchus, I. i.

See

-Hack, i.e. hackney-coach (as on p. 291). This usage, now
found only in the United States, seems to be an earlier one.
A New Eng. Dict., where the earliest example is from Steele's
Lying Lover, III. ii.

PAGE 133. Sir Walter Rawleigh. See History of the World, I. iv. § 4.

No. 51C

PAGE 136. Motto. Ars Amat. i. 175. Cf. this paper with Tatler, No. 75. No. 511.

-Friend Dapperwit. Cf. No. 530, p. 210.

PAGE 137. Farmers' Daughters. A premonition of the fastidious
Will's own fate. Cf. his letter in No. 530.

PAGE 139. Motto. Horace, Ars Poet. 344.

PAGE 140.

The Absalon and Achitophel. By Dryden.
-Turkish Tale. See note, vol. i. p. 328.
PAGE 142. Motto. Virgil, Æn. vi. 50-1.

---

Dr. Sherlock. See note, vol. i. p. 329.

PAGE 146. Monsieur Des Barreaux (Jacques Vallée, Seigneur des B. -1602-1673). See Bayle's Dictionary, art. 'Des Barreaux,' note.

-Motto. Virgil, Georg. iii. 291-3.

PAGE 150. The Country Clown. See vol. v. p. 78, line 17.
PAGE 151. Laplanders. A reference to Scheffer's Odes, translated in
Nos. 366 and 406.

-Boccalini. Parnassus. See note, vol. iv. p. 296. PAGE 152. Motto. Terence, Heauton. II. iii. 19-20.

-Account of a Coquet. Ante, p. 107.

PAGE 155. Gatty. See vi. 293. Cf. Steele's Lover (No. 3).*
"I must desire Aronces to give an exact relation of the airs and
glances of the whole company, and particularly how Mrs. Gatty
sits, when it happens that she is to pass by the Lover Vagabond,
who, I find, is got into that company by the favour of his cousin
Jenny."

PAGE 156. Motto. Juvenal, Sat. xv. 34, 36-8.
PAGE 157.

There were not ever, etc. From this point to the close of

No. 512

No. 513.

No. 514,

"No. 515,

No. 516,