[128] 'Oldfield:' this eminent glutton ran through a fortune of
fifteen hundred pounds a-year in the simple luxury of good
eating.--_P_.
[129] 'Bedford-head:' a famous eating-house.
[130] 'Proud Buckingham:' Villiers, Duke of Buckingham.
[131] 'Aristippus:' the licentious parasite of Dionysius.
[132] 'Sticks:' Exchequer tallies--an old mode of reckoning.
[133] 'Barnard:' Sir John Barnard, an eminent citizen of the
day.
[134] 'Lady Mary:' Montague, who was as great a sloven as a
beauty.
[135] 'Murray:' afterwards Lord Mansfield.
[136] 'Creech:' the translator of Horace.
[137] 'Craggs:' his father was originally a humble man.
[138] 'Cornbury:' an excellent and high-minded nobleman,
great-grandson of Lord Clarendon, the historian.
[139] 'Tindal:' the infidel, author of 'Christianity as Old as
the Creation.'
[140] 'Anstis:' Garter King-at-Arms.
[141] 'Luckless play:' Young's 'Buseris;' the name of the
spendthrift is not known.
[142] 'Augustus:' referring ironically to George II., then
excessively unpopular for refusing to enter into a war with Spain, which
was supposed to have insulted our commerce.
[143] 'Skelton:' poet laureate to Henry VIII.
[144] 'Christ's Kirk o' the Green:' a ballad made by James I. of
Scotland.
[145] 'The Devil:' the Devil Tavern, where Ben Johnson held his
poetical club.
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