Chapter C: No. 132. WEDNESDAY, AUGUST 1 (3)

22. _Faux-Hall_. The new Spring-Garden took this name from Foukes de Breant, who married the Countess of Albemarle. It is the scene of the matchless Letter XLVI in Fanny Burney's _Evelina_, and the subject of many allusions in literature.

24. _at La Hogue_. The original issue reads in _Bantry Bay_, where the French fleet defeated the English in 1689. The memory of La Hogue, where the French were defeated in 1692 by the English and Dutch, would be more pleasing to the public.

31. _London Bridge_. Not the bridge now standing, which dates from 1825, but the old bridge built in the thirteenth century.

32. _the seven wonders_. The Pyramids, the walls and hanging gardens of Babylon, the tomb of Mausolus at Halicarnassus, the temple of Diana at Ephesus, the Colossus of Rhodes, the statue of Jupiter by Phidias at Olympia, and the Pharos of Alexandria.

33. _true Englishman_. A phrase made popular by Defoe's _True- born Englishman_, 1701.

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4. _Temple-Bar_. The old gateway between the Strand and Fleet Street, where traitors' heads used to be exhibited. _On this side_ would be the western side, outside the city.

6. _the fifty new churches_. By the Act of 1710 a duty was imposed on coal for this and other purposes.

15. _knight of the shire_, v. note on p. 26, 1. 18.

22. _put_. v. note on p. 127, 1. 14.

23. _Thames ribaldry_. The waterway was famous for its verbal interchange, some of which has been recorded by Taylor the Water-Poet, Tom Brown, Swift and Dr. Johnson, and of which the amenities of our omnibus-drivers are but a Bowdlerized version.

34. _Mahometan paradise_. A paradise of the senses.

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4. _your nightingale_, v. note on p. 98, 1. 25.

8. _a mask_. A woman in a mask.

16. _hung beef_. Beef preserved in salt or spices

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5. _sensibly_. Keenly. Cf. Shakespeare, _Hamlet_ IV. v. 150:

And am most sensibly in grief for it.

13-14. _promoting an address ... in which he succeeded_. Urging the adoption of an address which actually was adopted.

27. _you was_. A very frequent use.

29. _country_. Country-side, neighbourhood. Cf. Shakespeare, _Merry Wives of Windsor:_

He's a justice of peace in his country.

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14. _a lightning before death_. These words occur in Shakespeare, _Romeo and Juliet_, V. iii. 90.

33. _peremptorily_. Authoritatively, positively. Cf. Shakespeare, I _Henry IV_, II. iv. 472:

Peremptorily I speak it, there is virtue in that Falstaff.

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7. _Quorum_, v. note on p. 7, 1. 9.

16. _quit-rents_. Charges on the estate.

23. _joyed himself_. Enjoyed himself, been cheerful.

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3. _Act of Uniformity_. Acts of Uniformity were passed in 1549, 1558, 1662, and 1706.