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128-133.] PROPOSAL FOR FAIR FOR MARRIAGE. 213

1. 14. unsight unseen, neither purchase nor purchaser seeing the other; cp. Massinger, The Old Law, iii. 1, "Unsight, unseen, I take three to one," i.e. at a hazard, without any certainty in the matter..

1. 23. mandarin, a governor of a Chinese province.

P. 131, 1. 7. had made those abatements, had lowered the price at which she was to be marked for sale.

1. 8. a scold, an ill-tempered, shrewish woman.

1. 9. the top of the market, the most highly priced of those for sale.

1. 10. romps, girls fond of noisy, boisterous play.

1. 13. should go off... two, should find more eager bidders.

1. 18. railleries, pungent jests, scoffs.

1. 20. well with them, high in their favour.

THE DEATH OF SIR ROGER. No. 517.

1. 27. sensibly, keenly, feelingly.

P. 132, ll. 5, 6. very warmly ... penning, eagerly advocating the adoption of an address which he had himself composed.

1. 20. country, neighbourhood.

11. 27, 8. had lost... stomach, had no appetite for roast beef; a dish of which he was always so fond.

1. 31. kept a good heart, retained his usual good spirits.

11. 32, 3. upon a kind message, on his receiving a kind message. 1. 35. a lightning before... death, a last bright flicker of the flame of death before it went out for ever. From Romeo and Juliet, v. 3. 90.

P. 133, 1. 2. my good old lady, the good old mistress whom I served.

1. 6. tenement, a holding, a dwelling inhabited by a tenant. 1. 8. frieze coat, a coat made of a coarse woollen cloth; literally cloth of Friesland.

1. 9. riding-hood, such as were worn by women riding to market.

1. 17. peremptorily, confidently, as being a matter of certainty. 1. 21. made... end, died peacefully and with resignation to God's will; cp. H. V. ii. 3. 11, "A' made a finer end and went away an it had been any christian child," said of the dying Falstaff.

1. 25. the quorum, see note, p. 6, 1. 28.

1. 34. quit-rents, rents reserved in grants of land by payment of which the tenant is quit from other service, but in this case charges upon the estate; quit is here used in its adjectival sense, and no hyphen is necessary.

1. 36. makes much of, treats with great kindness.

P. 134, 1. 4. joyed himself, been cheerful.

11. 17, 8. Act of Uniformity, see note, p. 11, 11. 29, 30.

MARRIAGE OF WILL. HONEYCOMB. No. 530.

P. 135, 1. 16. Mr. Congreve's Old Bachelor, Congreve's earliest comedy, produced in 1693.

1. 20. amends, reparation; a plural noun. An amende honorable is a common French phrase for a full reparation of an injury, insult, etc.

1. 21. yoke-fellow, see note, p. 15, 1. 30. Hymen, the Greek god of marriage.

1. 28. The Templar, the barrister; see Essay No. 2.

11. 30, 1. sets... can, speaks of his marriage as cheerfully as he

can.

P. 136, 1. 8. every great fortune, every rich heiress.

1. 13. dashed, mingled, spiced.

1. 14. cant-phrases, bits of slang, fashionable jargon. To cant' was originally to sing in a whining way.

1. 15. pretty, pleasant.

1. 21. dog of a steward, rascally steward.

1. 23. in sin and sea-coal, in the dissipations and comforts of a town life; sea-coal, coal brought from the pits by sea.

1. 25. abroad, in the open air.

1. 27. purling, flowing with a murmuring sound.

1. 32. honest, respectable.

1. 33. portion, dowry.

1. 35. unaffected turn, it not being distorted by artificial restraints of dress, such as stays, etc.

1. 36. shot... through, fatally wounded my heart.

P. 137, 1. 1. grogram, called because made of a coarse grain or texture great, coarse; and grain, grain" (Škeat, Ety. Dict.).

66 a stuff made of silk and mohair ... so
-F. gros,

1. 2. brocade, see note, p. 37, 1. 13.
1. 6. alliances, sc. with noble families.

1. 8. fine, showy.

1. 9. graces, favour.

11. 15, 6. I saw... up, I saw that such a tribe, etc., had shot up, or, I had seen such a tribe, etc., shoot up.

1. 16. fluttering, making a great show in their smart costumes. 1. 17. homme de ruelle, man about town, man of fashion; from F. ruelle, a little street, diminutive of rue, a street.

1. 19. jauntiness of air, vivacity; jauntiness from the verb to 'jaunt,' to ramble idly about.

11. 20, 1. I have been... years, i.e. has for the last twelve years given himself out as being but forty-eight years of age.

1. 24. fire, vivacity, spirit.

1. 25. knows the town, is well acquainted with London life. 1. 26. suitable, in a manner suitable.

HILPA AND SHALUM. No. 584.

P. 138, ll. 8, 9. when she was... age, in days when life was prolonged to nearly a thousand years, a girl of seventy would be in her early youth.

1. 26. made so quick ... courtship, got through the period of his love-making so quickly..

1. 29. pretended to, sought to win the love of.

P. 139, 1. 19. renewed his court, began again to make love.
P. 140, 1. 11. gloomy scenes, shady retreats.

1. 26. covering... forests, seeking to hide myself in woods and forests from the light of the sun, of which I have grown so weary.

P. 141, ll. 2, 3. is the admiration...centuries, is a thing which does not last long, a thing which after a time ceases to cause admiration; a century being in those days regarded as a short period.

1. 6. unless... roots, i.e. unless it is reproduced in the descendants of its original possessor.

1. 10. billet-doux, see note, p. 95, 1. 17.

HILPA AND SHALUM-Continued. No. 585.

11. 25, 6. art thou not...meadows? do you not in reality care more for my possessions than for myself?

P. 142, 1. 18. a treat, a diversion got up for her sake.

11. 22, 3. pot-herbs, herbs for cooking purposes.

1. 26. the wood of nightingales, the wood especially frequented by nightingales.

11. 28, 9. all the music of the country, all the best songsters among the birds of the country.

1. 30. in season, as we talk of certain fruits, vegetables, etc., as being in season, i.e. abounding, at a particular time of the year, so the various birds that from time to time were in song are spoken of as being in season.

P. 143, 1. 4. overtures, offers of marriage, proposals.

11. 8, 9. leased... lives, let on lease for a period extending over three ordinary lives, i.e. somewhere about three thousand years. 1. 10. in this building, in the building of such houses.

1. 14. timbrel, a kind of tambourine, or shallow drum, used as an accompaniment to dancing.

1. 20. a whole... Saturn, i.e. a period of twenty-nine years and a half.

1. 26. her interest, considerations of profit.

P. 144, 1. 7. cubits, an old measure of length, the length from the elbow to the end of the middle finger.

1. 8. spikenard, an aromatic oil or balsam.

1. 9. spicy, spice-producing.

1. 10. the burnt offering, in the Jewish religion was an animal consumed on the altar as an offering to God.

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Brocade, 37. 13.
Brutum fulmen, 85. 27.
Busby, Dr., 103. 5.

Canopy, 20. 30.

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Cassandra, 71. 34.
Cat-calls, 113. 29.

Catch (sb.), 41. 24.

Caterwauling, 114. 4.

Chamber-counsellor, 10. 28.

Childermas-day, 15. 14.
Chimerical, 23. 7.

Chorus, Greek, 116. 3.
Cloister, 19. I.
Coke, 7. 4.

Colly-molly-puff, 93. 8.
Colossus, 47. 26.

Comedy, the Ancient, 115. 7.

Commode, a, 48. 1; 120. 2.
Complexion, 5. 4.

Comptroller, 90. 27.

Coptic, 36. 21.

Coquettes, 43. 3.

Coronation chairs, 103. 22.

Country-dance, 5. 26.

Crotchet, 94. 6.

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Bone-lace, 49. II.

Bowling-green, 57. 8.

Dissenter, 80. 12.

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