SPECTATOR 108.
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2. Mr. William Wimble, v. Appendix II.
8. jack. Pike.
32. angle-rods. Fishing-rods. Cf. Shakespeare, Antony and Cleopatra, II. v. 10:
Give me mine angle,—we'll to the river.
officious. Serviceable, ready to do things for other people. The word is now restricted to its bad sense of meddlesome. Cf. Shakespeare, Titus Andronicus, v. ii. 202:
Come, come, be every one officious
To make this banquet.
35. correspondence. Communication.
36. a tulip-root. William III. brought to England the passion for tulip-growing which originated in Holland. At this time it was already on the wane in England.
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5. setting dog. Setter.
made. Trained.
10. humours. Pleasantries.
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4. played with it. Now played it.
9. quail-pipe. A pipe with which quails are lured to the nets.
26. humour. Whim, notion. Cf. Shakespeare, I Henry IV, III. i. 237, 'You are altogether governed by humours.'
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4. turned. Adapted.
8. my twenty-first speculation argues that it is better for a man to go into trade than to enter an over-crowded profession, and reproves 'parents who will not rather choose to place their sons in a way of life where an honest industry cannot but thrive, than in stations where the greatest probity, learning, and good sense may miscarry.'