[ [70] The reader may find accounts of most of these excursions in a work entitled The Progresses of Queen Elizabeth, in two volumes 4to. published by Mr. Nichols.
[ [71] This account is chiefly taken from a small pamphlet called Princely Pleasure at Kenelworth Castle. Progresses, vol. i.
[ [72] Harl. MS. 6395, entitled Merry Passages and Jests, art. 221.
[ [73] Tempest, act ii, scene iv.
[ [74] There actually was such a monkey exhibited at that time near Charing-Cross, but in the bills which were given to the public he is called a Wild Hairy Man, and they tell us he performed all that the Spectator relates concerning him; but this subject is treated more fully in the body of the work.
[ [75] Spectator, vol. i. No. 14.
[ [76] Spectator, vol. i. No 31, dated Thursday, April 5, 1711.
[ [77] A man famous at that time for imitating a variety of musical instruments with his voice, and, among others, the bells. See his bill of performance, at p. 255.
[ [78] All these pastimes the reader will find particularised, under their proper heads, in the body of the work.
[ [79] "To pass over griefe," says an author of our own, "the Italians sleepe, the English go to playes, the Spaniards lament, and the Irish bowl," &c. Fynes Moryson's Itinerary, in 1617, part iii. book i. cap. 3.