25. the Bastile. The State prison in Paris, which was destroyed by the mob in 1789 (v. Coleridge's poem on this subject, and the stirring description in Dickens' Tale of Two Cities, II. xxi.).
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20. Budgell has somewhat defaced the character of Sir Roger by this touch, and by the inhuman humanity of p. 52, 1. 18.
24. managed. Broken in. Cf. Shakespeare, Richard II., III. iii. 179:
Wanting the manage of unruly jades.
25. stone-horse. Stallion.
26. staked himself. Impaled himself on a stake in jumping.
29. beagles. Small hounds formerly employed in hunting the hare. Cf. White's Selborne, Letter VI, 'One solitary grey hen was sprung by some beagles in beating for a hare.' They are now superseded by harriers, which are still sometimes called by their name.
30. Stop-hounds. So called because when one of them found the scent he stopped and squatted 'to impart more effect to his deep tones, and to get wind for a fresh start' (Wills).
32. mouths. Voices. Cf. Shakespeare, Henry V., II. iv. 70: