Footnote 99:

Momus—(Greek mythology) the god of ridicule and mockery
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Footnote 100:

In Shakespeare's As You Like It the erudite Jaques, one of the banished duke's attendants in the Forest of Arden, is cynical and sarcastic.
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Footnote 101:

now in his sere and yellow leaf—Macbeth, Act V, Sc. iii:

"I have liv'd long enough: my way of life
Is fall'n into the sear, the yellow leaf;
And that which should accompany old age,
As honour, love, obedience, troops of friends,
I must not look to have; . . ."

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Footnote 102:

oriflamme—the red-orange flag of the Abbey St. Denis, used as a standard by early French kings
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