R.

[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.