177
This lady is believed to have been the unfortunate Elizabeth Malyn, whose third husband was Charles, eighth Lord Cathcart. Her fourth husband was Colonel Hugh Macguire, who kept her in confinement for more than twenty years at Tempo, in Enniskillen. (See Miss Edgeworth's "Castle Rackrent"; and a pamphlet entitled "Tewin-Water; or, the Story of Lady Cathcart," by Mr. Edward Ford, of Old Park, Enfield.)
178
"Æneid," i. 315 seq.
179
"The Double Gallant; or, the Sick Lady's Cure," by Colley Cibber (1707).
180
Addison wrote on this subject in the Spectator (No. 37); and in 1714 Steele published "The Ladies' Library," in three volumes, a gathering from the most approved religious and moral writers.
181
Swift. This paper is mentioned twice in the "Journal to Stella," Nov. 30 and Dec. 14, 1710: "You are mistaken in all your conjectures about the Tatlers. I have given him one or two hints, and you have heard me talk about 'The Shilling.'" "No, the Tatler of 'The Shilling' was not mine, more than the hint, and two or three general heads for it. I have much more important business on my hands; and, besides, the ministry hate to think that I should help him, and have made reproaches on it; and I frankly told them I would do it no more. This is a secret, though, Madam Stella."
182
Threw with a jerk. Cf. Spectator, No. 77, "I saw him squir away his watch a considerable way into the Thames."
183
The two shields on Cromwell's shilling; see No. 245.
184
By John Philips (1676-1709), the author of "Cyder." The "Splendid Shilling" was published in 1705, after two unauthorised versions had appeared. Written in imitation of Milton, it describes, in mock-heroic strains, the miseries of a debtor in want of a shilling to buy food, clothes, wine, or tobacco.
185
See No. 132.
186
See No. 116.
187
See No. 103.
188
Charles Lillie; see No. 110.
189
The Masters in Chancery sat on the bench with the Lord Chancellor, but he was the sole judge of the court.
190
See Jeremy Collier's "Essays upon Several Moral Subjects" (1709), Part iv. pp. 205-236.
191
Here used for tragic writer.
192
"Macbeth," act ii. sc. 2.
193
"Essays," vi.: "Of Greatness."
194
No. 241.
195
Tickell says that Steele assisted in this paper.
196
See No. 250.
197
Mary Astell (see Nos. 32 and 166).
198
"Fables," iii. 17. 12. The correct reading is "stulta est gloria."
199
See No. 256.
200
"Sir R. Steele assisted in this paper" (Tickell).
201
Several popular editions of Mandeville's travels appeared in Queen Anne's reign.