[103] Been even with.
L'honneur de contredire a pour lui tant de charmes,
Qu'il prend contre lui-même assez souvent les armes
Et ses vrais sentiments sont combattus par lui,
Aussitôt qu'il les voit dans la bouche d'autrui.
Le Misanthrope, act 2, scene 5.
[106] "Picaroon," a rogue, from Spanish picaro. "Loof" is more commonly written "luff."
[107] A pert young fellow.
[108] Scotch warming-pan; a wench. Grose: Lex. Balat.
[109] Cheat: gamble.
[110] The point of the antithesis lies in the opposition of the new guinea to the old gold. Guineas were not coined before the year 1662.
[111] Hercules' Pillars was the name of a tavern in Fleet Street, mentioned by Pepys; also of one at Hyde Park Corner, immortalised in the pages of Tom Jones.