line 10. To sell bargains is to return indecent answers to civil questions. P. 24, line 6. Mother Needham was a prominent bawd, notorious for her foul language. See TE, 4, 374-75, and 5, 293-94. lines 7-8. "Oldfieldismus" and "Kibberismus" refer respectively to the styles of Anne Oldfield, a well-known actress, and Colley Cibber, playwright, stage manager, and hero of the _Dunciad_. Mrs. Oldfield was generally respected, but Pope, like Bramston, seems to have disliked her (TE, 4, 375). line 11. Tallboy was a booby young lover in Richard Brome's comedy _The Jovial Crew_ (1641), popular throughout the eighteenth century. P. 26, line 12. Mist: Nathaniel Mist, Tory journalist. See TE, 5, 448. Eusden: Laurence Eusden, Poet Laureate 1718-30, often ridiculed by Pope. line 14. Cibber's opera is _Love in a Riddle_ (1729), designed to capitalize on the craze for ballad opera created by _The Beggar's Opera_. P. 27, line 5. Censor: Sir Richard Steele as Isaac Bickerstaffe, the nominal author of _The Tatler_. P. 29, line 6. Where Edmund Curll stood was in the pillory. P. 31, line 3. Hugo Grotius's classic of political science, _De jure belli ac pacis_, was published in 1625 and translated in 1654. P. 32, line 1. Wickfort: Abraham de Wicquefort, _l'Ambassadeur et ses fonctions_ (La Haye, 1680). It was summarized in _The Craftsman_ of 23 Sept. 1727. line 4. John Banks was the author of _The Unhappy Favourite; or the Earl of Essex_ (1681) and of _The Island Queens, or the Death of Mary, Queen of Scotland_ (prohibited in 1684; a revision was produced in 1704). Bell says that although "written in the most contemptible language, yet they never fail to melt the audience into tears, merely by the force of judicious and well-arranged plots and incidents." P. 33, line 1. Arch-Bishop: William Wake, Archbishop of Canterbury since 1716. He was 72 in 1729. Master of the Rolls: Sir Joseph Jekyll, who had held the office since 1717, was about 66 in 1729. line 12. Spence: Thomas Spence (d. 1737), Serjeant-at-Arms. P. 34, line 3. Toft: In 1726 one Mary Toft claimed to have given birth to seventeen live rabbits, and some who should have known better believed her. See Pope's poem on her, _TE_, 6, 259, and Hogarth's engraving. throws: i.e., throes, labor pains. line 8: Bromley and Hanmer: William Bromley (?1663-1732), MP for Oxford 1701-32, Speaker 1710-13; Sir Thomas Hanmer (1677-1746), who represented several constituencies from 1701-27 and was Speaker 1714-15. They were Tory heroes, at least to Atterbury, for having refused the places offered them by George I in 1715 (Foord, p. 51). P. 35, line 1. Tonson: Jacob Tonson, prominent bookseller. line 9. Cler. Dom. Com.: "Clerk of the House of Commons." P. 36, line 2. Die Martis is Tuesday; Thursday is Die Jovis.