For coward dogs
Most spend their mouths when what they seem to threaten
Runs far before them.
33. cry. Pack. Cf. Shakespeare, Coriolanus, III. iii. 120,
'You common cry of curs.'
34. nice. Fastidious. Cf. Shakespeare, Love's Labour's Lost, v. ii. 219, 'We'll not be nice; take hands.'
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5. counter-tenor. Alto.
8. iv. i. 124. Shakespeare was not in Budgell's day so common a reservoir of quotations as he has since become. Dryden had appreciated him, but he was in general very little known, even among men of letters.
15. Hunting in July must have entailed great loss on the farmers before it was forbidden by the Game Laws of 1831.
17. pad. v. note on p. 12, 1. 31.
19. rid. v. note on p. 24, 1. 17.