FOOTNOTES:
[63] See No. 50.
[64] The tucker "ran in a small kind of ruffle round the uppermost verge of the woman's stays, and by that means covered a great part of the shoulders and bosom" (Guardian, No. 100). A tendency to abandon the use of the tucker was the subject of Addison's satire (ibid., No. 109).
[65] "Paradise Lost," ix. 1187.
[66] "The Tatler, in his last, promises us that as the town fills he will be wittier. I am sorry, for his sake, it has been empty so long. I believe he will be shortly as good as his word, for his friends, I hear, are coming from Ireland. I expect, too, some of my friends from the same country; and as he is to be new-rigged out for a wit, so I don't question but that there will from thence, too, come fresh materials for an Examiner." (Examiner, No. 5.)
[No. 218. [Addison.]
From Tuesday, Aug. 29, to Thursday, Aug. 31, 1710.
Scriptorum chorus omnis amat nemus et fugit urbes.
Hor., 2 Ep. ii. 77.