[180] The story of the capture of Troy through Sinon's treachery, by help of a wooden horse, is told in the second book of the "Æneid." Sinon, as Dryden puts it, was
"Taken, to take—who made himself their prey,
T'impose on their belief, and Troy betray."
In the original editions "Sinon" is misprinted "Simon."
[181] This letter was by John Hughes.
[182] Horace, 4 Od., ix. 29.
[183] There was a public-house called the George and Dragon at Billingsgate.
[184] "Julius Cæsar," act ii. sc. 1 ("Let's carve," &c.).
[185] Cf. the story of Mr. Thomas Charlton in the "Memoirs of Gamesters," &c., p. 150. Tickell alludes to this letter in his verses to the Spectator, printed in No. 532:—
"From felon gamesters the raw squire is free,
And Britain owes her rescued oaks to thee."
[186] The original handbill in the British Museum (Harl. MSS., Badford's Coll. 5996) shows that the real names of the two candidates, called in the Tatler Sir Arthur de Bradly and Sir Humphry Greenhat, were Sir Ambrose Crowley and Sir Benjamin Green. The name of Crowley's agent, and those of his witnesses, are only marked by Steele with their initial and final letters. In every other respect, dates not excepted, the papers are word for word the same. The candidates were Sir Ambrose Crowley and Deputy Gough on one side; and Sir Benj. Green and Deputy Tooley on the other. On Sept. 23, 1709, the majority was declared for the two latter without a poll. (Post Boy, Sept. 22-24, 1709.)