378-9).
P. 131. -----
"Naso contemnere adunco". Cf. Horace, 'Sat'. i. 6. 5:--
naso suspendis adunco
Ignotos,
and Martial, 'Ep'. i. 4. 6:--
Et pueri nasum Rhinocerotis habent.
l. 2. -----
"Loo", i.e. Lanctre- or Lanterloo, a popular
eighteenth-century game, in which 'Pam', l. 6, the knave of
clubs, is the highest card. Cf. Pope, 'Rape of the Lock', 1714,
iii. 61:--
Ev'n might 'Pam', that Kings and Queens o'erthrew,
And mow'd down armies in the fights of Lu;
and Colman's epilogue to 'The School for Scandal', 1777:--
And at backgammon mortify my soul,
That pants for 'loo', or flutters at a vole?
l. 17. -----
"Miss Horneck". Miss Mary Horneck, the 'Jessamy Bride'
('vide' note, p. 251, l. 14).
l. 36. -----
"Fielding". Sir John Fielding, d. 1780, Henry
Fielding's blind half-brother, who succeeded him as a Justice of
the Peace for the City and Liberties of Westminster.
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