Uprose the master of the seven-fold Shield.
[413] The hoop petticoat, in spite of the notion of Addison, that "a touch of his pen would make it contract itself like the sensitive plant," continued in fashion as an ordinary dress for upwards of threescore years, and remained the court costume till the death of Queen Charlotte.—Croker.
[414] Many modern editions read shrivelled, but Pope took his epithet, now obsolete, from Dryden's Flower and Leaf:
Then drooped the fading flow'rs, their beauty fled,
And rivelled up with heat, lay dying in their bed.—Wakefield.
[415] Chocolate was made in a kind of mill.—Croker.
[416] The anonymous translator of Ariadne to Theseus:
And trembling at the waves which roll below.—Wakefield.
[417] The first edition continues from this line to ver. 24 of this Canto.—Pope.
[418] The modern portion of Hampton Court, and the East and South fronts, were built by William III., who frequently resided there. Queen Anne only went there occasionally.—Croker.
[419] Originally in the first edition,