[92] Sir John Davies, who was afterwards Lord Chief Justice of the King's Bench, and wrote a poem on the Art of Dancing (so lively was the gravity of those days!) "bastinadoed" a man at dinner in the Temple Hall, for which he was expelled. The man probably deserved it, for Davies had a fine nature; and he went back again by favour of the excellent Lord Ellesmere.
[93] Dunciad, book ii.
[94] Boswell's Life of Johnson, eighth edit., 8vo. 1816, vol. iv., p. 27.
[95] Boswell's Life of Johnson, eighth edit. 1816, vol. i., p. 398.
[96] Boswell's Life of Johnson, eighth edit. 1816, vol. i., p. 378.
[97] Ibid., vol. ii., p. 421.
[98] Ibid., vol. ii., p. 271.
[99] Spence's Anecdotes, Singer's edit. p. 355.
[100] Swift's Works, ut supra, vol. iv., p. 41.
[101] Tatler, No. 142. According to the author of a lively rattling book, conversant with the furniture of old times, Arbuthnot was a great amateur in sticks. "My uncle," says he, "was universally allowed to be as deeply skilled in caneology as any one, Dr. Arbuthnot not excepted, whose science on important questions was quoted even after his death; for his collection of the various headed sticks and canes, from the time of the first Charles, taken together, was unrivalled."—Wine and Walnuts, vol. i., p. 242.