[76]. If ever chance. Ibid. 347–8.

He spins [‘draweth out’] the thread of his verbosity. Love’s Labour’s Lost, V. 1.

The very words. Macbeth, I. 3.

Now night descending. The Dunciad, I. 89–90.

Virtue may chuse. Epilogue to the Satires, Dialogue I., 137–172.

[77]. His character of Chartres. Moral Essays, Epistle III.

Where Murray. Imitations of Horace, Epistle VI., To Mr. Murray, 52–3. William Murray (1704–1793) was created Baron Mansfield in 1756.

Why rail they then. Epilogue to the Satires, Dialogue II. 138–9.

Despise low thoughts [joys]. Imitations of Horace, Epistle VI., To Mr. Murray, 60–2.

[78]. Character of Addison. Epistle to Dr. Arbuthnot, 193–214.