PAGE 283. Hot-Cockles (Fr. La main chaude), a game in which the player No. 245. shuts his eyes, puts his hand on his back, and is required to guess who strikes it. Cf. Eugene Sue, Mysteries of Paris, III. vii. page 284. Whisk. See i. p. 343.

Lanterloo, a card game in which the knave of clubs is the highest card. Cf. Tatler, No. 245.

PAGE 286. Joshua Barnes (d. 1714), Professor of Greek at Cambridge.
Græcum est, etc. A saying of Franciscus Accursius, when
he encountered a Greek quotation in his Justinian.
'Accursius' in Bayle.

Motto. Homer, Iliad, xvi. 33-5.

Equipage of the Tea-Table. See i. p. 318.

PAGE 290. Motto. Hesiod, Theogonia, 11. 39-40.

See art.

British Fishery, alias 'Billingsgate,' as in No. 451, and in

the Tatler, No. 79.

PAGE 292.

Hudibras, III. ii. 443.

PAGE 293. Wanton Wife of Bath. The ballad is given in extenso in
Percy's Reliques (ed. Wheatley) iii. p. 336.

Ovid. Metam. vi. 556-560.

The Story of the Pippin Woman. Gay in his Trivia (II.) refers to the loquacious dame who, when the Thames was frozen over, had her head cut off by the ice.

"The cracking Crystal yields, she sinks, she dyes;
Her Head chopt off, from her lost Shoulders flies:
Pippins she cry'd, but Death her Voice confounds,
And Pip-Pip-Pip along the Ice resounds.”

PAGE 294. Motto. Cicero, De Officiis, I. xv.
PAGE 295. A City Romance. The 'eminent trader' was a Mr.
John Moreton, referred to again in No. 546; and the 'generous
merchant' Sir William Scawen, the 'W. S.' of the letter.
No. 346. The initials at the end of the letter are 'W. P.', though
a correction to 'W. S.' had been made in No. 252 of A.
PAGE 296. It has been heretofore urged. See No. 218.

Cf.

A Tradition, etc. See Goldsmith's Life of Richard Nash"An instance of his humanity is told us in the Spectator, though his name is not mentioned. When he was to give in his accounts to the Masters of the Temple, among other articles, he charged 'For making one man happy, 10%,"" etc.

No. 246.

No. 247.

No. 248.

PAGE 297. Motto. Taken from Winterton's Poetae Minores Graeci, No. 249. p. 507.

PAGE 299. The Dispensary, by Samuel Garth.

PAGE 300. Waller, The Countess of Carlisle in Mourning, 1. 13.

Horace, Odes, I. xxxiii., II. viii. etc.

Milton, L'Allegro, 11, etc.

PAGE 301. Motto. Horace, Epist. I. xvii. 3-5.

PAGE 302. Pious Man. Cf. the rather ludicrous image in Young's

Night Thoughts.

PAGE 303. Ardentis, etc. Virgil, Æn. xii. 101-2.

T. B.' is said to be Mr. Golding.

PAGE 304. Starers, ante, i. p. 75, etc.

Perspective-glasses. Cf. Tatler, No. 77.

No. 251,

PAGE 305. Motto. Virgil, Æn. VI. 625-6 (Si linguae centum sint, etc.).

PAGE 306. Card-matches. See vol. i. p. 328.

PAGE 307. Colly-Molly-Puff. "This little man was but just able to support the basket of pastry which he carried on his head, and sung in a very peculiar tone the cant words which passed into his name Colly-Molly-Puff. There is a half sheet print of him in the Set of London Cries, M. Lauron del. P. Tempest, exc." Grainger's Biographical History, quoted by Chalmers.

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