[106] 'Who to the dean, and silver bell:' meaning the man who would have persuaded the Duke of Chandos that Mr P. meant him in those circumstances ridiculed in the 'Epistle on Taste.'--_P_. [107] 'Sporus:' Lord Hervey. [108] 'The lie so oft o'erthrown:' as, that he received subscriptions for Shakspeare; that he set his name to Mr Broome's verses, &c., which, though publicly disproved, were nevertheless shamelessly repeated.--_P_. [109] 'The imputed trash:' such as profane psalms, court-poems, and other scandalous things, printed in his name by Curll and others.--_P_. [110] 'Abuse:' namely, on the Duke of Buckingham, the Earl of Burlington, Lord Bathurst, Lord Bolingbroke, Bishop Atterbury, Dr Swift, Dr Arbuthnot, Mr Gay, his friends, his parents, and his very nurse, aspersed in printed papers, by James Moore, G. Ducket, L. Wolsted, Tho. Bentley, and other obscure persons.--_P_. [111] 'Sappho:' Lady M.W. Montague. [112] 'Welsted:' accused Pope of killing a lady by a satire. [113] 'Budgell:' Budgell, in a weekly pamphlet called _The Bee_, bestowed much abuse on him. [114] 'Except his will:' alluding to Tindal's will, by which, and other indirect practices, Budgell, to the exclusion of the next heir, a nephew, got to himself almost the whole fortune of a man entirely unrelated to him.--_P_. [115] 'Curlls of town and court:' Lord Hervey. [116] 'Noble wife:' alluding to the fate of Dryden and Addison. [117] 'An oath:' Pope's father was a nonjuror. [118] Curll set up his head for a sign. [119] His father was crooked. [120] His mother was much afflicted with headaches. [121] 'Fortescue:' Baron of Exchequer, and afterwards Master of the Mint. [122] 'Fanny:' Hervey. [123] 'Falling horse:' the horse on which George II. charged at the battle of Oudenarde. [124] 'Shippen:' the only member of parliament Sir R. Walpole found incorruptible. [125] 'Lee:' Nathaniel, a wild, mad, but true poet of Dryden's day. [126] 'Budgell:' Addison's relation, who drowned himself in the Thames. [127] 'And he whose lightning:' Charles Mordaunt, Earl of Peterborough, a man distinguished by the rapidity of his military movements--a petty Napoleon. [128] 'Oldfield:' this eminent glutton ran through a fortune of fifteen hundred pounds a-year in the simple luxury of good eating.--_P_. [129] 'Bedford-head:' a famous eating-house. [130] 'Proud Buckingham:' Villiers, Duke of Buckingham. [131] 'Aristippus:' the licentious parasite of Dionysius. [132] 'Sticks:' Exchequer tallies--an old mode of reckoning. [133] 'Barnard:' Sir John Barnard, an eminent citizen of the day. [134] 'Lady Mary:' Montague, who was as great a sloven as a beauty. [135] 'Murray:' afterwards Lord Mansfield. [136] 'Creech:' the translator of Horace. [137] 'Craggs:' his father was originally a humble man. [138] 'Cornbury:' an excellent and high-minded nobleman, great-grandson of Lord Clarendon, the historian.