READER,
If thou wouldst avoid so strange
A death,
Look not upon Lucinda's eyes.
FOOTNOTES:
[240] See No. 79.
[241] Calamanco is a woollen stuff made plain, striped, checked, or figured, and glazed in finishing. It was generally made in Flanders and Brabant, and was much used in the last century. Cf. No. 96, "a gay calamanco waistcoat."
[242] See No. 35. Steele returned to the character of Cynthio in 1714, in No. 38 of the Lover, written two months after Lord Hinchinbroke had spoken on Steele's behalf in the debate whether he should be expelled the House of Commons. Lord Hinchinbroke died in 1722; in 1712 it was reported that he was one of the Mohocks who went about doing mischief ("Wentworth Papers," 277 note).
[243] This epitaph is a quotation from a letter of Sir John Suckling ("Works," 1770, I. 103).