SPECTATOR 113.
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11. settled. Salmon thinks that the walk was not actually settled upon the widow as her property, but that it was indissolubly connected with her in Sir Roger's mind.
20. Cf. Orlando in As You Like It, III. ii. 10:
Carve on every tree
The fair, the chaste, and unexpressive she.
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17. rid. v. note on p. 24, 1. 17.
19. bitted. Trained to carry their heads well with a bearing rein.
22. assizes. Sessions of the court.
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20. far gone. Deeply experienced. For this use of gone, cf. Keats, On a Lock of Milton's Hair, 25, 'Grey gone in passion.'
21. confident. Now confidant.
28. humane. Human, civilized.
34. pretended. Presumed, attempted. Cf. Shakespeare, I Henry VI., IV. i. 6:
And none your foes but such as shall pretend
Malicious practices against his state.
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7. go on with. Continue to charm you with, proceed with.
20. discovered, v. note on p. 5, 1, 12.
31. last. Most extreme.
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9. the sphinx. The monster which continued to oppress Thebes until such time as one of her victims should be able to answer the riddle she put to him. Oedipus answered her, and she destroyed herself.
21. a publick table. When away from home, it was usual for a traveller to dine, not at his lodgings, but at a public table or ordinary.
22. tansy. A very popular dish of the seventeenth century, a kind of rich, spiced custard.
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3. Martial. A Latin poet of the first century of our era. i. 69.