Thou didst promise
To bate me a full year.
22. Faux-Hall. The new Spring-Garden took this name from Foukes de Breant, who married the Countess of Albemarle. It is the scene of the matchless Letter XLVI in Fanny Burney's Evelina, and the subject of many allusions in literature.
24. at La Hogue. The original issue reads in Bantry Bay, where the French fleet defeated the English in 1689. The memory of La Hogue, where the French were defeated in 1692 by the English and Dutch, would be more pleasing to the public.
31. London Bridge. Not the bridge now standing, which dates from 1825, but the old bridge built in the thirteenth century.
32. the seven wonders. The Pyramids, the walls and hanging gardens of Babylon, the tomb of Mausolus at Halicarnassus, the temple of Diana at Ephesus, the Colossus of Rhodes, the statue of Jupiter by Phidias at Olympia, and the Pharos of Alexandria.
33. true Englishman. A phrase made popular by Defoe's True- born Englishman, 1701.
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4. Temple-Bar. The old gateway between the Strand and Fleet Street, where traitors' heads used to be exhibited. On this side would be the western side, outside the city.
6. the fifty new churches. By the Act of 1710 a duty was imposed on coal for this and other purposes.
15. knight of the shire, v. note on p. 26, 1. 18.