in both cases. In both particulars, i.e. fortune and conversation.
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12. dipped. Mortgaged.
32. personate. Appear the possessor of.
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7, 13. Laertes and Irus. Laertes was king of Ithaca and father of Ulysses; Irus, or properly Arnaeus, a beggar who kept watch over Penelope's suitors. Their names are here introduced as typical of the rich and the poor man.
10. four shillings in the pound. The amount of the land tax.
19. way. If the verb is correctly are, way should be written in the plural.
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11. Cowley, the poet and essayist, who died in 1667.