[Page 140], l. 12. I do not know whether this speech was meant for Lord Sparkish or Lady Answerall.
[Page 143], ll. 1, 3. An unnecessary double entry, but right in the attribution.
[Page 145], l. 9. “In my Tip,” “as I am drinking.”
[Page 161], l. 4. “Weily rosten,” should probably be “brosten,” i.e., “well-nigh burst.”
[Page 162], l. 9. Lord Smart might make this speech; but from the answer it would seem to be his Lady’s.
[Page 165], l. 13.—I don’t know whether Swift, who never forgot his feud with “Cousin Dryden,” was indulging in a half-gird at “The corruption of a poet is the generation of a critic.”
[Page 176], l. 8. “Concealer.”—A brilliant pun on “Counsellor.”
[Page 181], l. 24. “A Bone in my Leg.”—This odd phrase for a peculiar cramp in the leg is not dead yet.
[Page 183], l. 21. “Quare.”—David Q., died in 1724. He had invented repeaters, and throughout the eighteenth century was what Tompion was later among watchmakers, what Joe Manton was long among gunmakers, a name to conjure with and to quote.
[Page 184], l. 24. “Box it about; ’twill come to my Father.”—The famous Jacobite cant-phrase for breeding disturbance in hopes of a fresh Revolution.