The Tatler (Vol 4)

247

See Lucian's "Judicium Vocalium." Such words as σήμερον and σὺκον afterwards came to be spelled τήμερον and τὺκον.

248

Coal carried by sea from the colliery, as was then the case with all the coal used in London. In the country wood was burned; and Will Honeycomb, after his marriage to a farmer's daughter, said that had his steward not run away, he would still have been "immersed in sin and sea-coal" in London, with its smoke and gallantries (Spectator, No. 530).

249

Implied.

250

"Paradise Lost," v. 1.

251

Trajan Boccalini, lawyer and satirical writer, was born in 1556 at Loreto, and died in 1613. He is best known by his "News from Parnassus," a translation of which was revised and reissued by John Hughes in 1706.

252

Francis Guicciardini, politician and historian, was born at Florence in 1482. He died in 1540, and his lengthy "History of Italy" was published in 1561. An article on Guicciardini, by Mr. John Morley, appeared in the Nineteenth Century for November 1897.

253

Donne's "Sermons," ii. 239.

254

Sir Richard Baker's "Chronicle of the Kings of England" (1641) was a favourite authority with Sir Roger de Coverley (Spectator, No. 269).

255

Probably Swift (See No. 9).

256

"And spoke the hour-glass in her praise, quite out" (Gay, "Shepherd's Week," 1714).

257

No. 268.

258

See Nos. 28, 41, 60, 61, and 79.

259

A favourite place for duelling. See No. 31.

260

Jeremy Taylor's "Rule and Exercise of Holy Living and Dying" was published in 1650.

261

Perhaps Jabez Hughes, brother of John Hughes. A letter by the latter in No. 73 is signed "Will Trusty."

262

Cf. Spectator, No. 306, where a young lady who had been disfigured by smallpox, says, "I was taken off in the prime of youth, and according to the course of nature may have forty years' after-life to come."

263

See No. 245.

264

Rough-coated. In Pope's "Rape of the Lock" Belinda's dog is named Shock.

265

A compound of sweet substances, in which medicines could be concealed and thus be licked up without being noticed.

266

An impure oxide of zinc, used in soothing irritated surfaces on the flesh.

267

Betony was smoked to cure headache, vertigo, and sore eyes; coltsfoot, for coughs and lung affections (Miller's "Herbal," 1722).

268

See No. 263.

269

See No. 126. Full directions for making Hungary water, of various qualities, are given in Lillie's "British Perfumer," pp. 142-145.

270

Christmas.

271

Edward Lloyd's Coffee-house in Tower Street is first heard of in 1688; in 1692 Lloyd moved to Lombard Street, at the corner of Abchurch Lane. Periodical sales were held at his house, which was the resort of merchants and shipowners. The Society of Lloyd's was established in 1770.