7. relish. Taste, enjoyment. Cf. Shakespeare, Troilus and Cressida, III. ii. 20:
The imaginary relish is so sweet
10. mansions. Abiding-places. Cf. St. John, xiv. 2, 'In my Father's house are many mansions.'
13. Quoted from an earlier passage in the same essay (v. note on p. 43, 1. 18).
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26. the spleen. Melancholy disposition, not the organ of that name. Cf. Shakespeare, As You Like It, iv. i. 217, 'Begot of thought, conceived of spleen.'
27. the vapours. Moods of depression. Cf. Fielding, Amelia, iii. 7, 'Some call it the fever on the spirits, some a nervous fever, some the vapours, some the hysterics.'
29 et seq. The argument runs: nature has adapted the body to exercise, therefore exercise is necessary to our well-being. This is sound only on the assumptions that everything which nature performs is based on necessity, and that the body has been made in such a way as to secure our well-being.
30. proper. Fit. Cf. Shakespeare, Hamlet, II. i. 114: