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[15] Lord Rochester and Sir George Etherege. Well-known leaders of fashion and dissipation.
[16] Bully Dawson. A notorious swaggerer and sharper.
[17] Dressed. I.e., fashionably.
[18] Quorum. Panel of magistrates.
[19] Game Act. Laws dating from very early times and regulating the licence to kill game.
[20] Humoursome. Capricious.
[21] Aristotle and Longinus. Aristotle’s Poetics and Longinus on the Sublime are classics of literary criticism.
[22] Littleton or Coke. Famous writers on law.
[23] Demosthenes and Tully. Demosthenes and M. Tullius Cicero, the great orators of Athens and Rome respectively.