[189] An old sea-term, signifying to run before the wind.
[190] Une querelle Allemande is the well-known French phrase for a quarrel picked without cause. The Hind insinuates, that the Panther, conscious of superior force, meant to take such cause of quarrel at the English Catholics, as Louis had raked up against the Huguenots, which, therefore, might be styled rather a French than a German quarrel.
[193] The different parts of the body were assigned to different planets. The old almanacks have a naked figure in front, surrounded by the usual planetary emblems, which dart their rays on the parts which they govern. What Scorpio claims, if not apparent from the context, may be there found.
[195] Alluding to the charges brought against Dryden himself by Stillingfleet. See [Note V.]
[198] This is our author's own averment in his "Defence of the Papers of the Duchess of York." See [Note VIII.]