SPECTATOR 132.
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23. chamberlain. Servant who attends the bedchambers. Cf. Milton, On the University Carrier, 1. 14, 'In the kind office of a chamberlin.'
25. Mrs. was the early abbreviation of mistress, which we have now unhappily abbreviated to miss.
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8. half-pike. A kind of short lance, the weapon of an infantry officer.
10. equipage. Train, following.
12. cloak-bag. Portmanteau. Cf. Shakespeare, Cymbeline, III. iv. 172:
'Tis in my cloak-bag-doublet, hat, hose, all.
in the seat. Under the actual seat, in the well of the coach.
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1. the brideman. Now called the best man.
8. the giving her. The giving of her.
11. Cf. Shakespeare, Henry V., IV. iv. 73, 'The saying is true,— the empty vessel makes the greatest sound.'
19. countenance. In its original meaning of bearing, behaviour. Cf. Shakespeare, Taming of the Shrew, i. i. 234:
Puts my apparel and my countenance on.
22. fleer. Gibe. Cf. Shakespeare, Much Ado about Nothing, V. i. 58, 'Never fleer and jest at me.'
28. hasped up. Shut up.
30. Ephraim was a generic name for Quakers, given them because they refused to fight, v. Psalm lxxviii. 9, 'The children of Ephraim being armed and carrying bows turned back in the day of battle.'
35. smoky. The current slang for shrewd. To smoke a plot or a trick was to detect it; in modern slang to smell a rat.
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4. ruffle. Disturbance, commotion.
7. conduct. Cf. note on p. 59, 1. 13.
11. taking place of other vehicles was an important privilege, for the road was generally practicable only for one vehicle at a time, so that the displaced one would have to stop till the road should be clear again.
25. inward. Pious, earnest. Cf. Thomas a Kempis, De Imitatione Christi, II. i. 41, 'a very inward man:' also Penn, Rise and Progress of the Quakers, 1690, 'more religious, inward, still.'
32. thee and I. The Friends generally employ thee for thou. So too in p. 114, 1. 2.
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3. affections. Dispositions, feelings. Cf. Shakespeare, Measure for Measure, II. iv. 168:
By the affection that now guides me most.