Alexander Pope: Selected Poetry and Prose

83 quill the pen of a city clerk.
84 notches sticks refers to the method of notching tally
sticks still used in the treasury and not yet replaced by
written accounts.
85 Barnard MP for the City of London, an opponent of
Walpole.
86 wants lacks.
88 Bug Henry de Grey, Duke of Kent, so called from his
smell. The harness is the order of the garter.
Dorimant a young fop in Etherege’s Man of Mode.
89 cit a city fellow, often used pejoratively.
90 D—l not known, but evidently a worthless aristocrat
in contrast to the worthy Barnard.
95 screen calling Walpole to mind because he had
refused to hold a public enquiry into the directors of
the South Sea Company.
100 Cressy...Poitiers two English victories in France in
the fourteenth century.
103 grace gracefully or by the grace of God.
105 eunuchs Italian castrati who sang in opera.
112 S—z Augustus Schutz; keeper of the privy purse to
George II.
114 Reynard the fox of folk-tale addressing the lion.
128 farm the poor-box embezzle donations made for the
poor.
the pews the rents taken for pews in church.
129 assemblies public ballrooms.
stews brothels.
130 bucks young men seeking to inherit from childless
couples.
133 hundreds of pounds.
138 Sir Job there is no known attribution for this figure.
148 Flavio an Italianate name perhaps chosen to suggest
the Latin lover.
stocking the bride threw her stockings among the
wedding guests. Anyone hit was supposedly the next
in line for marriage.
152 Proteus could transform himself into any shape he
wished, hence Protean.