SPECTATOR 517.
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5. sensibly. Keenly. Cf. Shakespeare, Hamlet IV. v. 150:
And am most sensibly in grief for it.
13-14. promoting an address … in which he succeeded. Urging the adoption of an address which actually was adopted.
27. you was. A very frequent use.
29. country. Country-side, neighbourhood. Cf. Shakespeare, Merry Wives of Windsor:
He's a justice of peace in his country.
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14. a lightning before death. These words occur in Shakespeare, Romeo and Juliet, V. iii. 90.
33. peremptorily. Authoritatively, positively. Cf. Shakespeare, I Henry IV, II. iv. 472:
Peremptorily I speak it, there is virtue in that Falstaff.
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7. Quorum, v. note on p. 7, 1. 9.
16. quit-rents. Charges on the estate.
23. joyed himself. Enjoyed himself, been cheerful.
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3. Act of Uniformity. Acts of Uniformity were passed in 1549, 1558, 1662, and 1706.