[62]. Unfold the book. Hamlet, I. 5.

Spiritus precipitandus est. See Vol. IV. The Spirit of the Age, note to p. 309.

Mr. Cobbett. See Vol. IV., The Spirit of the Age, pp. 334 et seq.

[63]. Perseverance, dear my lord. Troilus and Cressida, III. 3.

[64]. Ned Softly, in the Tatler. See No. 163, April 25, 1710.

[65]. Never ending, still beginning. Dryden, Alexander’s Feast, 102. Also cf. ‘Still ending and beginning still,’ Cowper’s The Task, III. 627.

Physician, heal thyself. S. Luke, iv. 23.

[66]. Dr. Burney. Charles Burney the elder (1726–1814), historian of music.

ESSAY VII. ON LONDONERS AND COUNTRY PEOPLE

From The New Monthly Magazine, No. 32, vol. VIII. 1823, ‘Table Talk, VII.’