[69] 'Secretary of State:' in the year 1720.
[70] 'Work of years:' Fresnoy employed above twenty years in
finishing his poem.
[71] 'Worsley:' Lady Frances, wife of Sir Robert Worsley.
[72] 'Voitnre:' a French wit, born in Amiens 1598, died in 1648;
a favourite of the Duke of Orleans, and member of the French Academy.
[73] 'Monthansier:' Mademoiselle Paulet.
[74] 'Coronation:' of King George the First, 1715.
[75] 'M.B.:' Martha Blount.
[76] 'Southern:' author of 'Oronooko,' &c. He lived to the age
of eighty-six.
[77] 'A table:' he was invited to dine on his birthday with this
nobleman, who had prepared for him the entertainment of which the bill
of fare is here set down.
[78] 'Harp:' the Irish harp was woven on table-cloths, &c.
[79] 'Prologues:' Dryden used to sell his prologues at four
guineas each, till, when Southern applied for one, he demanded six,
saying, 'Young man, the players have got my goods too cheap.'
[80] 'Mr C.:' Mr Cleland, whose residence was in St James's
Place, where he died in 1741. See preface to 'The Dunciad.'
[81] 'Trumbull:' one of the principal Secretaries of State to
King William III., who, having resigned his place, died in his
retirement at Easthamstead, in Berkshire, 1746.
[82] 'Heaven's eternal year is thine:' borrowed from Dryden's
poem on Mrs Killigrew.
[83] 'Fenton:' Pope's joint-translator of Homer's Odyssey.
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