FOOTNOTES:
[283] "Don Quixote," Part I. chap. i.
[285] In the Spectator, No. 251, Addison applies the word to a crazy person: "A crack and a projector."
[286] Writers of newspapers.
[287] The Postman was edited by a French Protestant named Fontive, whom Dunton describes as "the glory and mirror of news-writers; a very grave, learned, orthodox man."
[288] Albergotti was then holding Douay for Lewis XIV.
[289] See No. [18]. The news-letter was printed to imitate handwriting.
[290] Cf. "Macbeth," act iii. sc. 4:
"Stand not upon the order of your going,
But go at once!"