 of Imitators can never possibly arrive
at.
 
13 This Word, which the Serjeant unhappily mistook for an Affront, is a Term in
Logic, and means that the Conclusion doth not follow from the Premises.
 
14 Whose Vices are not allayed with a single Virtue.
15 A celebrated Mantua-maker in the Strand, famous for setting off the Shapes of
Women.
 
16 Possibly Circassian.
 
17 This was the Village where Jones met the Quaker.
 
18 Place me where never Summer Breeze
Unbinds the Glebe, or warms the Trees;
Where ever lowering Clouds appear,
And angry Jove deforms th' inclement Year.
 
Place me beneath the burning Ray,
Where rolls the rapid Carr of Day;
Love and the Nymph shall charm my Toils,
The Nymph who sweetly speaks, and sweetly smiles.
Mr. Francis.
 
19 Nerva, Trajan, Adrian, and the two Antonini.
 
20 See the 2d Odyssey, ver. 175.
 
21 Lest Posterity should be puzzled by this Epithet, I think proper to explain
it by an Advertisement which was published Feb. 1. 1747.
N.B. Mr. Broughton proposes, with proper Assistance, to open an Academy at his
House in the Hay-Market, for the Instruction of those who are willing to be
initiated in the Mystery of Boxing; where the whole Theory and Practice of that
truly British Art, with all the various Stops, Blows, Cross-Buttocks, etc.
incident to Combatants, will be fully taught and explain'd; and that Persons of
Quality and Distinction may not be deterred from entering into a Course of these
Lectures, they will be given with the utmost Tenderness and Regard to the
Delicacy of the Frame and Constitution of the Pupil, for which Reason Mufflers
are provided, that will effectually secure them from the Inconveniency of black
Eyes, broken Jaws, and bloody Noses.
 
22 Meaning, perhaps, the Bank-bill for 100 l.
 
23 This is a Fact which I knew happen to a poor Clergyman in Dorsetshire, by the
Villainy of an Attorney, who not contented with the exorbitant Costs to which
the poor Man was put by a single Action, brought afterwards another Action on
the Judgment, as it is called. A Method frequently used to oppress the poor, and
bring Money into the Pockets of Attornies, to the great Scandal of the Law, of
the Nation, of Christianity, and even of Human Nature itself.

