[424] An eminent dancing-master of the period.
[427] Alluding to the political apprehensions of the period, so universal in the city.
[428] These lines are a parody on a passage in Cowley's Davideis, Book I.:
Beneath the dens where unfledged tempests lie,
And infant winds their tender voices cry;
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Where their vast court the mother waters keep;