[211] The corrections noted in the following number of the folio issue suggest that Addison contributed towards this paper.
[212] See Nos. 36 and 73.
[213] James Nayler, the Quaker, was born about 1617. Enthusiasts proclaimed that he possessed supernatural powers, and he was convicted of blasphemy, and was pilloried and whipped. Nayler himself only said that "Christ was in him," but his followers worshipped him as God. He died in 1660.
[214] No. 67.
[215] Perhaps Sir Samuel Garth (died 1719), the author of the mock-heroic poem, "The Dispensary."
[216] See No. 10.
[217] The reference here is not, as Nichols suggested, to the "Annotations on the Tatler," by "Walter Wagstaff, Esq.," because the writer of that work refers clearly to Steele as author of the Tatler, and because the book was not published until August 1710. The First Part, price 1s., was advertised in the Post Man and Post Boy for August 31 to September 2, 1710, and Part II. was advertised as published that day in the Daily Courant for September 20, 1710.
[No. 79. [Steele.]
From Saturday, Oct. 8, to Tuesday, Oct. 11, 1709.
Felices ter, et amplius,
Quos irrupta tenet copula; nec malis
Divulsus querimoniis
Supremâ citius solvet amor die.