SPECTATOR 109.
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16. conversation. Intercourse, behaviour. Cf. Shakespeare, Antony and Cleopatra, II. vi. 131, 'Octavia is of a holy, cold, and still conversation.'
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1. jetting. Projecting. Cf. Shakespeare, Titus Andronicus, II. i. 64:
How dangerous
It is to jet upon a prince's right.
habit. v. note on p. 10, 1. 20.
2. The bonnet of the Yeomen of the Guard is a round cap of black velvet with a gold band.
10. the tilt-yard. Formerly the yard of St. James's Palace.
11. Whitehall was formerly a royal palace. It was almost entirely destroyed in the two fires of 1691 and 1697.