[93] Indeed, excess is needful for continency's sake. Fire is with fire extinguished.
[94] Hob in the Hall: the name of a game.
[95] Compare the ensuing dialogue with Le Misanthrope, act I, scene I.
[96] One who gave false bail or evidence, for hire.
[97] i.e. Draggled; bespattered with mud.
[98] To keep a strict watch on anyone's actions. Grose: Lexicon Balatronicum.
[99] Look sullen.
[100] A tragedy by Thomas Shadwell, produced in 1676, partly based on Molière's Le Festin de Pierre. This allusion must have been inserted after the production of The Plain Dealer.
[101] Afterwards Sir Peter Lely, painter of the beauties of the Court of Charles II.
[102] A sweet-scented powder.