[569] See ante, i. 353, note 1.
[570] Ovid, Ars Amatoria, iii. 121.
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'This facile temper of the beauteous sex Great Agamemnon, brave Pelides proved.' |
These two lines follow the four which Boswell quotes. Agis, act iv.
[572] Agis, a tragedy, by John Home. BOSWELL.
[573] See ante, p. 27.
[574] A misprint, I suppose, for designing.
[575] 'Next in dignity to the laird is the tacksman; a large taker or leaseholder of land, of which he keeps part as a domain in his own hand, and lets part to under-tenants. The tacksman is necessarily a man capable of securing to the laird the whole rent, and is commonly a collateral relation.' Johnson's Works, ix. 82.
[576] A lettre de cachet.