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[ 'Bold Benson:' this man endeavoured to raise himself to fame by erecting monuments, striking coins, setting up heads, and procuring translations of Milton; and afterwards by as great passion for Arthur Johnston, a Scotch physician's version of the Psalms, of which he printed many fine editions. See more of him, book iii. v. 325.—P. W.]
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[ 'The decent knight:' Sir Thomas Hanmer, who was about to publish a very pompous edition of a great author, at his own expense.—P. W.]
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[ 'So by each bard an alderman,' &c.: alluding to the monument of Butler erected by Alderman Barber.]
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[ 'The Samian letter:' the letter Y, used by Pythagoras as an emblem of the different roads of Virtue and Vice.]
'Et tibi quae Samios diduxit litera ramos.'—Pers. P. W.]
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[ 'House or Hall:' Westminster Hall and the House of Commons.—W.]