[529a] A purgative electuary.
[529b] Bargains.
[529c] Three or four words illegible. Forster reads, “Nite, nite, own MD.”
[530a] Forster reads, “devil’s brood”; probably the second word is “bawd:” Cf. p. [510].
[530b] Several “moving pictures,” mostly brought from Germany, were on view in London at about this time. See Tatler, No. 129, and Gay’s Fables, No. 6.
[531b] “Mr. Charles Grattan, afterwards master of a free school at Enniskillen” (Scott).
[531c] So given in the MS. Forster suggests that it is a mistake for “wood.”
[532b] It is probable that this is Pope’s friend, William Cleland, who died in 1741, aged sixty-seven. William Cleland served in Spain under Lord Rivers, but was not a Colonel, though he seems to have been a Major. Afterwards he was a Commissioner of Customs in Scotland and a Commissioner of the Land Tax in England. Colonel Cleland cannot, as Scott suggested (Swift’s Works, iii. 142, xviii. 137–39, xix. 8), have been the son of the Colonel William Cleland, Covenanter and poet, who died in 1689, at the age of twenty-eight. William Cleland allowed his name to be appended to a letter of Pope’s prefixed to the Dunciad, and Pope afterwards described him as “a person of universal learning, and an enlarged conversation; no man had a warmer heart for his friends, or a sincerer attachment to the constitution of his country.” Swift, referring to this letter, wrote to Pope, “Pray tell me whether your Colonel (sic) Cleland be a tall Scots gentleman, walking perpetually in the Mall, and fastening upon everybody he meets, as he has often done upon me?” (Pope’s Works, iv. 48, vii. 214).