PAGE 182.
Chelsea.

Our own Country.

There was a tapestry factory at No. 609.

Motto. Seneca, Thyestes, 398-403.
Nothing can be great, etc.

No. 610.

Longinus, On the Sublime, vii.

PAGE 183. The Story of Gyges. Cf. the Tatler, No. 138 and 243.
Cowley's Relation. From The Country Life (Lib. iv.

Plantarum) in Essays, iv. (Of Agriculture').

Motto. Virgil, En. iv. 366.7.

PAGE 185.

No. 611.

PAGE 186.

Front Box. See note, vol. ii. p. 323.

Virgil, En. xii. 529-32.
Virgil, Georg. iv. 564.

No, 612.

No. 613.

PAGE 193.

Motto.

Visiting-Days. See note, vol. i. p. 324.

What shall I do, etc. Cowley, The Motto ('Miscel

lanies,' p. 1, edit. 1700).

The Melancholy Cowley.

"Where reverend Cham cuts out his famous way
The Melancholy Cowley lay."

The Complaint. 'Verses written on
Several Occasions,' ed. 1700, p. 25.

PAGE 196. Monimia is the name of the leading female character in
Otway's Orphan.

PAGE 198. Andromache. Mr Philips. See note, vol. v. p. 290. Cowell's Interpreter. The passage is taken from the article on Free-bench' in Cowell's Law Dictionary; or the Interpreter of Words and Terms, used either in the Common or Statute Laws and in Tenures and Jocular Customs.

augmented and improved, London, 1708, fol. It does not occur

Past two a clock, etc. is a formula of the night-watchman. "Two in the Morning is the Word, old Boy" (4). PAGE 204. Clip'd the King's English.

'Mobile' in No. 617.

See references in note to

Sir Richard. Is this an allusion to Steele's recent Protestant ebullitions?

Motto. Persius, Sat. i. 99-102.

PAGE 205. Marrow-bone and Cleaver. Frequently referred to about
this time as the instruments of mob-music. Cf. Tatler, No. 153,
and see the sixth plate of Hogarth's Idle and Industrious
Apprentices.

The Mobile.. This word (placed in contrast with 'mob' in
the letter on p. 203) was hardly an antiquated form at this time.
See vol. ii. p. 193 and note; also the quotations in Skeat's
Etymological Dictionary (art. 'mob').

The Cleveland (i.e. the author John Cleveland). Dryden, in
the Essay of Dramatic Poesy, uses the word Clevelandisni for 'a

No. 614.

No. 615.

No. 616,

No. 617,

No. 617.

No. 618.

No. 619,

No. 620.

wresting and torturing a word into another meaning ́; and, later, he adds, "to express a thing hard and unnaturally, is his new way of elocution. We cannot read a verse of Cleveland's without making a face at it, as if every word were a pill to swallow : he gives us many times a hard nut to break our teeth, without a kernel for our pains " (ed. Scott and Saintsbury, xv. 287, 311). PAGE 205. The verses are a translation of a passage in Strada's Prolusiones Academicae. (Prolusio Sexta, Academia Secunda, p. 320, ed. Leyden, 1627.) See also note, vol. iii. p. 322. PAGE 207. Motto. Horace, Sat. I. iv. 40-2.

PAGE 209. Mr. Eusden. In A (No. 606) "This day is published a Letter to Mr. Addison, on the King's Accession to the Throne, by Mr Eusden. Printed for J. Tonson."

Motto. Virgil, Georg. ii. 369-370.

If the several letters ..

were published.

Two volumes were published in 1725 by Charles Lillie, the perfumer and newsagent. See note, vol. i. p. 310.

PAGE 210. An Alderman. "An allusion to John Barber, who had been a bookseller, was at this time an alderman, and afterwards Lord Mayor of London." (Note in Chalmers's edit.)

Dumb Man. Ante, p. 18, note.

Love Casuist.

Ante, p. 270 (No. 605).

Society of Reformers. See note, vol. i. p. 316.
Nonumque, etc. Horace, Ars Poet. 388.

The Upholsterer. Ante, vol. i. p. 184 and note.
Dapperwit. Ante, vol. vii. pp. 136, 210, 224.
Monimia. See p. 196 and note.

Motto. Virgil, Æn. vi. 792.

The Prospect of Peace (see vol. vii. pp. 317-319) and The Royal Progress were written by Thomas Tickell.

PAGE 214.

That fair Hill. A note is added in the duodecimo edition of 1715,-" Mr. Flamstead's House."

PAGE 215.

Halifax. See the Dedication to vol. ii. and note.
PAGE 216. Motto. Lucan, Pharsalia, ix. 11-14.`

Dryden. The Cock and the Fox, 11. 455-460.

No. 621.

No. 622,
No. 623,

PAGE 217.
PAGE 218:
PAGE 220.

Motto.

PAGE 221.

Motto.

Horace, Epist. I. xviii. 103.
Virgil, Æn. iv. 24-29.

Love-Casuist. See p. 270 (No. 605).

An ancient Custom. See p. 198.

Barnaby bright. St. Barnabas' Day, the longest day,' 11th June (O. S.). It was also called Long Barnaby, and Barnaby-day.

Motto. Horace, Sat. II. iii. 77-9.

Acted, actuated. See note, vol. iii. p. 314.
Motto. Horace, Odes, III. vi. 23-4.

Love Casuist. Ante, p. 270 (No. 605).
Child's. See note, vol. i. p. 310.

- Motto. Ovid, Metam. iv. 284.
A little work of a learned man.
to the Meditations of Robert Boyle.
PAGE 233.
Motto. Virgil, Eclog. ii. 3-5.

Mr. Morley finds an allusion

PAGE 235. Motto. Horace, Epist. I. ii. 43.

Those upon Infinitude. See No. 590 and note.

PAGE 236. The passage from Addison's Cato printed in the text is
almost the entire first scene of the fifth Act, which is a soliloquy
by Cato, described thus in the stage direction: "Cato solus, sitting
in a thoughtful posture: in his hand Plato's Book on the
Immortality of the Soul. A drawn sword on the table by him."
Regarding the Latin translation, Nichols supplies an interesting
note. "This beautiful translation, which fame and Dr. Kippis
have attributed to Bishop Atterbury (and which on that authority,
and on oral tradition in the University of Oxford, I had printed
as his in the Select Collection of Poems, vol. v. p. 6), I afterwards
found, reason (vol. viii. p. 302) to ascribe to Dr. Henry Bland,
headmaster of Eton school, provost of the College there, and dean
of Durham (to whom it is also without hesitation ascribed by the
last and best biographer of Addison): and have since had the
honour of being assured by Mr. Walpole that it was the work of
Bland; and that he has more than once heard his father, Sir
Robert Walpole, say, that it was he himself who gave that
translation to Mr. Addison, who was extremely surprised at the
fidelity and beauty of it."

PAGE 238. Motto. Juvenal, Sat. i.
PAGE 240. Brawn and Mince Pies.

170-1.

Boar's-head (or brawner's head),
Christmas- or mince pies, and plum-porridge had come to be,
since the days of the Commonwealth, the cherished delights of
anti-Puritan households.

"The high-shoe lords of Cromwell's making
Were not for dainties-roasting, baking;
The chiefest food they found most good in
Was rusty bacon and bag-pudding;
Plum-broth was popish, and mince-pie-
O that was flat idolatry."

And Hudibras (I. ii. 225)

"Rather than fail, they will defy

That which they love most tenderly;

Quarrel with minc'd pies, and disparage

Their best and dearest friend, plumb-porridge.'

Cf. vol. iv. p. 71, where Sir Roger de Coverley is hopeful of a Dissenter who ate plentifully of his plum-porridge at Coverley Hall. See the article in Chambers's Book of Days, ii. p. 755. PAGE 241. Motto. Horace, Odes, III. i. 2.

PAGE 243. Thanksgiving. This may be, as Chalmers says, a reference to the Proclamation, issued the day before the publication of this paper, for a thanksgiving for King George's accession, to be observed on 20th January.

Paradise Lost, iii. 365-371.

PAGE 244. Hockley in the Hole. See note, vol. i. p. 326.
PAGE 245. Motto. Horace, Odes, I. v. 5.

-

221.

In a Stage-Coach. Cf. vol. ii. 181, 230, iii. 273, and vii.

His Periwig, which cost no small Sum. Cf. Tatler (No. 54)" He answer'd Phillis a little abruptly at Supper the same

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No. 628.

No. 629.

No. 630.

No. 631

No. 631.

No. 632.

No. 633.

No. 634.

No. 635.

Evening; upon which she threw his Periwig into the Fire. Well, said he, thou art a brave Termagant Jade; Do you know, Hussey, that fair Wig cost Forty Guineas?" Cf. Pepys's reflections on the cost of periwigs, then coming into fashion. (Globe edition, by index.)

PAGE 245. Plain Spanish. Advertisements of Plain Spanish Snuff' are frequent in A. See also the preliminary announcement of the Tatler.

PAGE 248. Motto. Virgil, Æn. vi. 545.

Gregorio Leti. 1630-1701. A full account is given in Bayle's
Dictionary.
PAGE 249. You lately recommended. Ante, p. 169.

May possibly ascribe. An intended parallel to the last paper of the original series (No. 555): but not carried out.

PAGE 250. The making of Grottos. Cf. Pope's description of his Grotto at Twickenham (Elwin and Courthope, vi. 385), and his verses on the same (ib. iv. 494). See also Spectator, vol. i.

PAGE 251. Motto. Cicero, Orator, 34, 119.

p. 136.

This paper has been ascribed to Zachary Pearce, the editor of Longinus. Internal evidence favours the view. See note to No. 572.

PAGE 254. A Fragment of Longinus.

Pearce's Longinus (ed. 1762, p. 260).

PAGE 256. Motto. Xenophon,

See the first Fragment in

?

also Diogenes Laertius,

ii. 5, 11, 27. Longinus excuses Homer. § ix. (Pearce, ed. 1762, p. 48.) PAGE 258. Motto. Cicero, Somnium Scipionis, 6.

A late Spectator. No. 626, ante, p. 229. These papers have been ascribed to Henry Grove (see B. I.).

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