[72] Stomacher: a broad belt.
[73] Varlet: knave.
[74] Levee: a ceremonious visit received by a distinguished person in the morning.
[75] Spinet: a stringed instrument, a forerunner of our piano.
[76] Closet: private room.
[77] Signal: memorable.
[78] Chancery: a high court of equity.
[79] Glossing: commenting.
[80] Dionysius of Halicarnassus was born about the middle of the first century, B.C.; he endeavored in his history to relieve his Greek countrymen from the mortification they had felt in their subjection to the Romans, and patched up an old legend about Rome being of Greek origin and therefore their "political mother."
[81] Ideas, entities, abstractions, transcendentals, words used in that philosophy which deals with thinking, existence, and things beyond the senses.