FOOTNOTES:
[329] Sir John Hawkins ("History of Music," iv. 379) gives an account of the music-houses at Wapping, Shadwell, &c. Steele lived at Poplar at one time, and may then have made Rosin's acquaintance. See No. 23 of the Medley, where Steele tells a story of a ball at a music-house in Wapping, attended by colliers and sailors.
[330] St. Katherine's-by-the-Tower stood close to the Thames; it was pulled down in 1825, when St. Katherine's Dock was constructed. The precinct or liberty of St. Katherine extended from the Tower to Ratcliff.
[331] Archangelo Corelli, the famous violinist and composer, died at Rome in 1713.
[332] Giovanni Bononcini, the youngest son of the musician Giovanni Maria Bononcini, was for some time a rival of Handel. The opera of "Camilla" was composed when he was eighteen.
[333] By Sir Samuel Garth, 1699.
[No. 106. [Steele.]
From Saturday, Dec. 10, to Tuesday, Dec. 13, 1709.
Invenies dissecti membra poetæ.
Hor., 1 Sat. iv. 62.[334]