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No, 185, PAGE 63.

No. 186, PAGE 66.

Ovid, Metam. vii. 20-1.

Motto. Horace, Odes, I. iii. 38.

PAGE 69. Pythagoras's first rule is the motto of No. 112.
-A Cock to Esculapius, from the Phaedo, lxvi.
-Xenophon tells us. Cyropadia, viii. 7.

No. 187, PAGE 69. Motto. Horace, Odes, I. v. 12-13.

No, 188,

PAGE 70. Scrutore, or scrutoire, the older (17th cent.) aphetic form

of escritoire

PAGE 73. Mr. Sly. See B. I.

-Motto. Adapted from Cicero, Epist. ad Fam., XV. vi. 1: "Laetus sum laudari me, inquit Hector, opinor apud Naevium, abs te, pater, a laudato viro." See also V. xii. 7.

-The Satyrist. Persius, Sat. iv. 51-2.

"Tollat sua munera cerdo:

Tecum habita.'

PAGE 74. The Lacedæmonians. See Plutarch's Life of Lycurgus. PAGE 75. Equally the objects of ridicule. Cf. The Guardian, No 4 (March 16, 1713), in which Pope comments severely on "this prostitution of praise.'

-Bulfinch, in Brome's Northern Lasse (1632), again referred to in No. 468.

-Phocion. See Plutarch's Life. Cf. Bacon, Apophthegms, 291. "Has any foolish thing dropped from me unawares ?" No. 189. PAGE 76. Motto. Virgil, Æn. ix. 294; x. 824.

PAGE 77. Sir Sampson Legend, the heavy father in Congreve's comedy
Love for Love.

PAGE 78. Crudelis, etc. Virgil, Eclog. viii. 48-50.

-Subject of my Paper. Ante, No. 181.

PAGE 79. Father le Conte.

See Part II., Letter I., of the Present State of China, an English translation of his work which was published in London in 1697.

-Herodotus, I. cxxxvii.

No. 190, PAGE 79. Motto. Horace, Odes, II. viii. 18.

On the subject of this paper cf. The Guardian, No. 105, by Addison.

PAGE 82. The greatest politicians of the age. A supposed reference to Secretary St. John, afterwards Lord Bolingbroke.

No, 191, PAGE 83. Motto. Homer, Iliad, ii. 6.

-Mahomet's Burying Place. Addison again makes use of
Bayle. See article 'Mahomet.'

PAGE 84. A Tacker-Number 134. In 1704 a Bill was introduced
into the House of Commons against occasional conformity, and,
that it might the more surely pass the Lords, was tacked to a
Money Bill.
A large majority, however, opposed this procedure,
and the Bill was thrown out. The minority numbered 134.
-Acted-actuated. Cf. No. 287 (first paragraph).
-Lottery. See note to No. 181.

PAGE 86. Disburse, reimburse.

No, 192, PAGE 87. Motto. Terence, Andria, I. i. 69-71.

PAGE 89. The Cornelii. Identified by some with Francis Eyles, director of the East India Company, and afterwards created a

No. 193.

baronet; his son, Sir John, Lord Mayor of London in 1727; and No. 192. his other son, Sir Joseph, Sheriff of London in 1725. PAGE 91. Motto. Virgil, Georgics, ii. 461-2. PAGE 92. Difference in the Military and Civil List. The Duke of Marlborough had the reputation of receiving en déshabillé. Steele may also hint at the Tory ministers Oxford and Ormond, the former the 'close' minister, the latter an 'open-breasted officer. PAGE 93. Line 2. A and the 1712-3 edit. read Beauteous,' which is probably a misprint.

PAGE 94.

The Satyrist says. Juvenal, Sat. viii. 73.

"Rarus enim ferme sensus communis in illa
Fortuna

PAGE 95. Motto. Horace, Odes, I. xiii. 4. See also p. 8 of this No. 194.
volume. Previous editors have found in the first letter a direct
reference by Steele to his relations with his wife 'Dear Prue.'
PAGE 98. Motto. Hesiod, Works and Days, ll. 40-1.

Arabian Nights. See the "History of the Greek King and
Douban, the Physician," in the tale of the Fisherman.
PAGE 99. Diogenes. Diogenes Laertius, Vitae Philosophorum, VI.
ii. 6.

-Sir William Temple's axiom is his own.

is to be avoided, especially in the common use of wine: whereof the first Glass may pass for Health, the second for good Humour, the third for our Friends: but the fourth is for our Enemies" (Essays, 'Of Health and Long Life,' vol. ii. p. 428, ed. 1754). PAGE IOI. Ancient Authors. Diogenes Laertius (Life of Socrates); Elian, Var. Hist. xiii. 27.

Luigi Cornaro's Trattato de la vita sobria appeared at Padua in 1558, and was the first of the Discorsi della vita sobria (Milan, 1627). Cornaro's Treatise of Temperance and Sobrietie, translated by Master George Herbert (the poet), had appeared in 1634. The English version incorrectly referred to by Addison is Sure and certain Methods of attaining a long and healthful Life... made English by W. Jones. 2nd edit. London, 1704. It is advertised in No. 196 (A). Many re-issues followed from the London and provincial presses: the 55th appeared at Leeds in 1832. PAGE 102. Motto. Horace, Epist. I. xi. 30. PAGE 104. The 'Young Woman' at Hackney refers to the petition of

Benjamin Easie in No. 134.

PAGE 105. Motto. Horace, Epist. I. xviii. 15-20.

PAGE 107. Hudibras, I. i. 69-70 ('Change hands').

No. 195.

No. 196.

No. 197.

PAGE IIO. Motto. Horace, Odes, IV. iv. 50-3. The original reads No. 198.

Cervi, which Addison alters for his present purpose.

Visitant to her Bed-side. See note, vol. i. p. 334.

Queen Emma, mother of Edward Confessor. Addison probably refreshed his memory by the perusal of Bayle's Dictionary, in which the tale is given. See article 'Emma.'

Chamont, a young soldier of fortune in Otway's tragedy of
The Orphan. The lines are in Act ii.

No. 199.

No. 200.

No. 201

No. 202.

No. 203.

No. 204,

No. 205,

PAGE 114. Motto. Ovid, Heroides, iv. 10.

Oroondates. From Mlle. de Scudéry's romance of Artamène ou le Grand Cyrus (1649, etc.).

PAGE 117. Motto. Virgil, En. vi. 824 (Vincet amor patriae').
'Philarithmus' himself, i.e. Henry Martyn (ante, p. 47),
may have been the author of this further politico-economic study.
The Schoolmen's Ass, ante, p. 83.

PAGE 121.

· πλέον, etc.

See the motto of No. 195, ante, p. 98.

-Sir William Petty (1623-1687).

His Essays in Political Arithmetic had been published in 1699: and a new edition had just appeared (in 1711).

PAGE 122. Motto. Aulus Gellius, Noctes Atticae, IV. ix.

"Nigidius Figulus, homo, ut ego arbitror, juxta M. Varronem doctissimus, in undecimo commentariorum grammaticorum versum ex antiquo carmine refert, memoria hercle dignum: religentem esse oportet; religiosum nefas. Cujus autem id carmen sit, non scribit." PAGE 125. Motto. Horace, Epist. I. xviii. 25. PAGE 127. Make-Bates. See vol. ii. p. 335. PAGE 129. Motto. Ovid, Metam. ii. 36-8.

PAGE 130. Virgil, Georgics, ii. 80-2.

PAGE 131. Addison takes the Fragment of Apollodorus from his
Winterton (Poetae Minores Graeci, p. 485). See ante, i. 339.
PAGE 133. Motto. Horace, Odes, I. xix. 7-8.

PAGE 134.

Sothades. This is Belinda's Portuguese for the dictionary Saudades. Saudade signifies a 'tender regard' or appreciation for something absent, combined with an earnest longing for its attainment.

PAGE 135. The Lover in the Way of the World. See Congreve's Comedy of Way of the World, Act I. sc. ii., where Mirabell says of Millamant's failings-" I studied 'em, and got 'em by They are grown as familiar to me as my own frailties; and in all probability, in a little time longer, I shall like 'em as well."

rote.

PAGE 136. R-s, interpreted by the early editors as Rivers.
PAGE 137. Motto. Horace, Ars Poet. 25.

PAGE 139. Foolish Roderigos. A reference to the character in Shake-
speare's Othello.

PAGE 141. Nicolini. See vol. i. p. 20, and B. I.

-Hopkins and Sternhold, the metrical translators of the Psalms.
-Sir William Temple, ante, p. 100.

-Errata. Perhaps an intentional error, at the expense of Robin
Good-fellow.

-This and subsequent numbers contain a long advertisement of "Proposals for Graving and Printing the Gallery of Raphael at Hampton-court.' Her Majesty having been graciously pleased to grant her Licence to Signor Nicola Dorigny (lately arrived from Rome) to copy and engrave these "the most valuable set of portable Pictures in the World," the said Signor proposed to issue 8 plates (7 cartoons and a frontispiece), 19 × 30 and 19 × 25, at four guineas per set, "a modest price," as the Undertaker "aims at Reputation rather than profit." The nobility and gentry are reminded of Signor Dorigny's work "after Raphael "

during the past twenty years. topic of No. 226 (p. 213), q. v.

Steele makes this proposal the No. 205.

PAGE 141. Motto. Horace, Odes, III. xvi. 21-2.
Motto. Juvenal, Sat. x. 1-4.

PAGE 145.
PAGE 147.

PAGE 148.

Verses out of Homer. Iliad, viii. 548-9.
As Homer tells us. Iliad, v. 127.

PAGE 149. Other editions add the signature 'L' to this paper.

Motto. Ovid, Ars Amat. i. 99.

populum ludis attentius ipsis.—Hor."

No. 206,

No. 207.

The motto in A is " Spectaret No. 208,

PAGE 150. Mackbeth the other Night. Played on Saturday, Oct. 20.
The Prude. See note vol. ii. p. 327.

PAGE 153. Motto. Simonides (Amorginus),

Iambics, iii. (IIepl No. 209,

yuvaɩkov). Addison derives his motto and his remarks about Simonides from Winterton's Poetae Minores Graeci, p. 442.

The

text from which he made his English version will be found on PP. 443-447.

PAGE 154. Bienséance.

PAGE 157. Boileau

See vol. ii. p. 338.

his last Satyr.

in 1693), the last in the edition of 1694.

This is Satire X. (written

The Satyr upon Man is Satire VIII. (1667).

In A is printed the following advertisement, which is here quoted in further illustration of the note on p. 330 of vol. i. 66 Hungary Water, right and fine, large half Pint (Flint) Bottles for 15d. at Strahan's, Bookseller, against the Royal Exchange. Note, it is the same sort by which Isabella, Queen of Hungary, so long preserved her Life and Health. She always poured a small quantity in the Water she washed her Hands and Face withal." Ŝhe "used it with great success in old Pains and the Rheumatism” and commended it especially for Pains in the Head and the Vapours. It is to be taken in a morning draught of ale to aid digestion; to be used by barbers, on their customers' heads and faces after shaving, and by Bagnio keepers, "who should pour some of these Bottles over the Gentlemen and Ladies when they came out of the Bath."

Motto. Cicero, Tusc. Disput. I. xv.

PAGE 158. Traveller upon the Alps. The metaphor may have been suggested by the well-known lines in Pope's Essay on Criticism (ii. 225-232), which, again, may be an echo of a passage in Drummond of Hawthornden's Hymn of the Fairest Fair in his Flowers of Zion.

PAGE 160. Lord Cardinal, etc. II. Henry VI., IV. iii. 27-9.

The Signature in A and in the editions after the 8vo of
1712-3 is Z, which here and elsewhere may stand for 'John
Hughes.' The signature 'T' may mean that Steele, as editor,
transcribed it. These considerations, however, recall Addison's
paragraphs in No. 221.

PAGE 160. Motto. Phædrus, Fab. i. Prol. 7.
PAGE 161. Horace has a thought. Odes, I. xvi.

Scott &

Dryden, Of the Pythagorean Philosophy, from the Fifteenth
Book of Ovid's Metamorphoses, 11. 239-246, 254-259.
Saintsbury's text reads Man or Beast in

242.

PAGE 162. Congreve in a Prologue to one of his Comedies. passage is in the Epilogue to Love for Love (ll. 21-24).

The

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No. 211.

No. 213.

No. 214,

No. 215.

No. 216,

No. 217.

No. 218,

PAGE 166.
V. ii.

Horace, Sat. II. vii. 91-2.

The passage from Tully will be found in the Paradoxa,

- On this day Swift writes in his Journal to Stella :-"The
Spectators are likewise printing in a larger and smaller volume, so
I believe they are going to leave them off, and indeed people grow
weary of them, though they are often prettily written.
See note

to No. 226.

PAGE 167. Motto. Virgil, Æn. i. 608.
PAGE 168. Acosta's Answer to Limborck. Addison alludes to the
Amica Collatio de Veritate Relig. Christ. cum Erudito Judaeo,
by Philippe de Limborch, professor of Theology at Amsterdam,
published in 1667. His opponent was the physician Isaac Orobio;
not Uriel Acosta, the convert to Judaism, who died at Amsterdam
as early as 1640. See Bayle.

Saint-Evremond's Works, vol. iii. ("Sur la Religion").
PAGE 170. Erasmus, Apophthegms, iii.

PAGE 171. Motto. Juvenal, Sat. iii. 124-5. In A the motto is-
Dulcis inexpertis cultura potentis amici;
Expertus metuit.-Hor.

PAGE 174. Plato's Guardian Angels. See the Phaedo.
Motto. Ovid, Ex Ponto, II. ix. 47-8.
PAGE 178. Motto. Terence, Eunuchus, I. i. 5-10.
Mr. Freeman, ante, p. 167.

PAGE 181. Motto. Juvenal, Sat. vi. 327-8.
PAGE 182.
PAGE 183. All over in a Sweat. The Vicar of Wakefield (1766) had
a like complaint against the "Two Ladies of Great Distinction
at the ball. "One of them, I thought, expressed her sentiments
upon this occasion in a very coarse manner, when she observed
that, by the living jingo, she was all of a muck of sweat""
(ch. ix.).

Demolish a Prude. See note, ante, p. 317.

PAGE 184. The Clergyman's Wife refers to No. 209 (ante, p. 156).
Motto. Horace, Epist. I. xviii. 68. The 1712 edition prints
'Caveto.'