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th, made him very kind to our interpreter, whom he looked upon as an extraordinary man; for which reason he shook him by the hand at parting, telling him, that he should be very glad to see him at his lodgings in Norfolk Buildings, and talk over these matters with him more at leisure.
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FOOTNOTES:
[165] Jointure. Settlement.
[166] Engaged. Pledged.
[167] Sir Cloudesley Shovel. Admiral Sir Cloudesley Shovel, drowned off the Scilly Isles, 1707.
[168] Dr. Busby. The famous flogging headmaster of Westminster.
[169] Cecil. Lord Burleigh, Queen Elizabeth's Lord High Treasurer.
[170] Forfeit. Gratuity due for sitting in the chair.
[171] Pommel. Part of the hilt.
[172] Touched for the evil. The royal touch was regarded as a cure for scrofula as late as Queen Anne's time.
[173] Casualties. Incidents.
NO. 335. TUESDAY, MARCH 25
Respicere exemplar vitae morumque jubebo Doctum imitatorem, et veras hinc ducere voces.
HOR. Ars Poet. ver. 317.
Those are the likest copies, which are drawn From the original of human life.
ROSCOMMON.
My friend Sir Roger de Coverley, when we last met together at the club, told me that he had a great mind to see the new tragedy[174] with me, assuring me at the same time, that he had not been at a play these twenty years. "The last I saw," said Sir Roger, "was the Committee, which I should not have gone to neither, had not I been told beforehand that it was a good Church of England comedy." He then proceeded to inquire of me who this Distressed Mother was; and upon hearing that she was Hector's widow, he told me that her husband was a brave man, and that when he was a schoolboy he had read his life at the end of the dictionary. My friend asked me, in the next place, if there would not be some danger in coming home late, in case the Mohocks[175] should be abroad. "I assure