The powers that be. Romans, xiii. 1.
Chop-fallen. Hamlet, V. 1.
For the good of the country. Cf. ‘’Twas for the good of my country that I should be abroad.’ Farquhar, The Beaux’ Stratagem, III. 2.
[376]. The Bills of Mortality. Weekly burial reports, first supplied by parish clerks in 1592–3.
Mr. Theodore Hook will cry ‘Cockney.’ See vol. VI. Table Talk, note to p. 98.
One-eyed M——. Probably John Murray, who had lost the sight of one eye through an accident.
[377]. When they censure the age. The Beggar’s Opera, Air XII.
Done the State some service. Othello, V. 2.
[378]. Like poor Morgan. Roderick Random, chap. xxxiv.
Come betwixt the wind and their nobility. 1 King Henry IV., I. 3.