FOOTNOTES:
[110] "Livide" (Martial).
[111] "Paradise Lost," iv. 358 seq.
[No. 228. [Steele.]
From Thursday, Sept. 21, to Saturday, Sept. 23, 1710.
----Veniet manus, auxilio quæ
Sit mihi——
Hor., 1 Sat. iv. 141.
From my own Apartment, Sept. 22.
A man of business who makes a public entertainment, may sometimes leave his guests, and beg them to divert themselves as well as they can till his return. I shall here make use of the same privilege (being engaged in matters of some importance relating to the family of the Bickerstaffs), and must desire my readers to entertain one another till I can have leisure to attend them. I have therefore furnished out this paper, as I have done some few others, with letters of my ingenious correspondents, which I have reason to believe will please the public as much as my own more elaborate lucubrations.