[110] "Julius Cæsar," act iii. sc. i.

[111] "Æneid," i. 294.

[112] See Nos. [115], [142].

[113] A description of the custom of drawing valentines, and of the hope and fear shown on the faces of the drawers, who in their earnestness gave to a scrap of paper the same effect as the person represented, is to be found in Lillie's "Letters sent to the Tatler and Spectator" (1725), i. 30. See No. [141].

No. 138.

[Steele.

Thursday, Feb. 23, to Saturday, Feb. 25, 1709-10.

Secretosque pios, his dantem jura Catonem.
Virg., Æn. viii. 670.

Sheer Lane, February 24.