[74] 'Coronation:' of King George the First, 1715. [75] 'M.B.:' Martha Blount. [76] 'Southern:' author of 'Oronooko,' &c. He lived to the age of eighty-six. [77] 'A table:' he was invited to dine on his birthday with this nobleman, who had prepared for him the entertainment of which the bill of fare is here set down. [78] 'Harp:' the Irish harp was woven on table-cloths, &c. [79] 'Prologues:' Dryden used to sell his prologues at four guineas each, till, when Southern applied for one, he demanded six, saying, 'Young man, the players have got my goods too cheap.' [80] 'Mr C.:' Mr Cleland, whose residence was in St James's Place, where he died in 1741. See preface to 'The Dunciad.' [81] 'Trumbull:' one of the principal Secretaries of State to King William III., who, having resigned his place, died in his retirement at Easthamstead, in Berkshire, 1746. [82] 'Heaven's eternal year is thine:' borrowed from Dryden's poem on Mrs Killigrew. [83] 'Fenton:' Pope's joint-translator of Homer's Odyssey. See Johnson's 'Lives of the Poets.' [84] His only daughter expired in his arms, immediately after she arrived in France to see him. [85] Lady Mary Montague wrote a rejoinder to this poem, in a caustic, sneering vein. [86] 'Vindicate the ways,' &c.: borrowed from Milton. [87] 'Egypt's God:' Apis. [88] 'Thin partitions' from Dryden. [89] 'Glory, jest, and riddle of the world:' Pascal in his 'Pensées' has a thought almost identical with this. [90] 'Good bishop:' De Belsance, who distinguished himself by attention to the sick of the plague, in his diocese of Marseilles in 1720. [91] 'Bethel:' a benevolent gentleman in Yorkshire, a great friend of Pope's. [92] 'Chartres:' Colonel, infamous for every vice--a fraudulent gambler, &c. &c. [93] 'Cromwell:' it is not necessary now to answer this insult to the greatest of Britain's kings. It is a clever ape chattering at a dead lion. [94] 'Good John:' John Serle, his old and faithful servant. [95] 'Mint:' a place to which insolvent debtors retired, to enjoy an illegal protection, which they were there suffered to afford one another, from the persecution of their creditors.--P. [96] 'Pitholeon:' The name taken from a foolish poet of Rhodes, who pretended much to Greek.--P. [97] 'Butchers, Henley:' Orator Henley used to declaim to the butchers in Newport market. [98] 'Freemasons, Moore:' he was of this society, and frequently headed their processions. [99] 'Bishop Boulter:' friend of Ambrose Philips. [100] 'Burnets, &c.:' authors of secret and scandalous history. [101] 'Gildon:' a forgotten critic and dramatist--a bitter libeller of Pope. [102] 'A Persian tale:' Ambrose Philips translated a book called the 'Persian Tales.' [103] 'Bufo:' most commentators refer this to Lord Halifax. [104] 'Sir Will:' Sir William Young. [105] 'Bubo:' Babb Dodington.