[31e] Scott suggests that the allusion is to The Tale of a Tub.
[31f] An extravagant compliment.
[32b] L’Estrange speaks of “trencher-flies and spungers.”
[32d] Samuel Garth, physician and member of the Kit-Cat Club, was knighted in 1714. He is best known by his satirical poem, The Dispensary, 1699.
[32e] Gay speaks of “Wondering Main, so fat, with laughing eyes” (Mr. Pope’s Welcome from Greece, st. xvii.).
[33a] See the letter of Oct. 10, 1710, to Archbishop King.