P. [4]: [4]. Honourable stabs. Perhaps a reference to the attack on Dryden in Rose Alley on 16 December 1679, which was popularly attributed to various honorable persons satirized in Mulgrave's An Essay upon Satyr.
P. [4]: 9-10. Tho' ... Bays. Cf. John Aubrey on the funeral of Samuel Butler on 27 September 1680:
About 25 of his old acquaintance at his Funerall. I myself being one of the eldest, helped to carry the Pall. His coffin covered with black Bayes. (Brief Lives, ed. O. L. Dick [London, 1958], p. 47.)
P. [6]: 7. As Tonnellers catch Partridge. A tunnel was a kind of net used by bird-catchers.
P. [6]: 21-22. As ... go. Cf. Donne's "A Lame Begger," The Satires, Epigrams and Verse Letters, ed. W. Milgate (Oxford, 1969), p. 51.
P. [6]: 27. BARBARA. The opening word of a mnemonic used in expressing the moods of the syllogism.
P. [7]: 21. Lab'ring Muses. PC has "tab'ring" (i.e., playing on tabors), a fairly clear case of lectio difficilior.
P. [10]: 6. How a curst Broker met a Poet. The earlier part of the description seems to be hinting at the distresses of John Banks, who was reduced to poverty after two of his plays met censorship trouble; however, the closing section on pp. [16]-[17] is clearly meant to refer to Wycherley. It is possible that this is another of the "Ingenious Person's" additions. Indeed it would have to be as Wycherley's troubles did not begin until after the date given for the departure of the Poeta.
P. [10]: 21. White-Fryers. The sanctuary area on the city side of the Temple: Shadwell's Alsatia.