=48=: 16. =Never open my lips but in my own club.= "Addison was perfect good company with intimates; and had something more charming in his conversation than I ever knew in any other man; but with any mixture of strangers, and sometimes only with one, he seemed to preserve his dignity much, with a stiff sort of silence." Pope, quoted in Spence's _Anecdotes_, p. 38. It will be noticed that while this taciturnity and reserve were characteristics of Addison, they were utterly foreign to the disposition of Steele. Steele often talked too soon and too fast, and he threw himself most heartily into the game of life. =48=: 27. =Neutrality between the Whigs and Tories.= The Spectator kept this resolve, though the restriction was difficult for Steele. =50=: 19. =Mr. Buckley's in Little Britain.= Samuel Buckley was a printer who, in 1702, had started the first English daily newspaper, _The Daily Courant_, a little sheet 14 by 8 inches in size. He undertook to print _The Spectator_ for Steele and Addison. Little Britain is the name of a short street in London, near Smithfield. =50=: 24. =C.= All Addison's papers in _The Spectator_ are signed with some one of the four letters forming the word Clio, the name of the muse of history. Steele's are signed R or T. In _Spectator_, No. 221, Addison gives a droll comment upon these "Capital Letters placed at the End of the papers." II. THE CLUB =Motto.= "But other six and more call out with one voice."--Juvenal, _Satires_, vii, 167. =51=: 2. =Sir Roger de Coverley.= "The still popular dance-tune from which Addison borrowed the name of Sir Roger de Coverley in _The Spectator_, is contained in Playford's _Division Violin_, 1685; in _The Dancing Master_ of 1696, and all subsequent editions."--Chappell, _Popular Music of the Olden Time_. Steele says it was Swift who made the happy suggestion of calling the old knight by the name of the popular dance. =51=: 4. =Country-dance.= This seems to be the original form of which contre-dance and contra-dance are perversions, naturally arising from the fact that in such dances the men and women stand in lines facing each other. =51=: 14. =Soho Square.= Since the time of Charles II this had been a fashionable quarter of London, but fell into comparative disfavour as a place of residence before the close of the eighteenth century. We do not hear again of this town residence of Sir Roger; he is considered as a country gentleman, who only makes short visits to London, and then lodges in Norfolk buildings off the Strand. =52=: 1. =My Lord Rochester and Sir George Etherege.= John Wilmot, Earl of Rochester (1647-1680), and Sir George Etherege (1634-1694) enjoyed some little reputation as poets and more notoriety as rakes during the reign of Charles II. Etherege had considerable dramatic ability; but both men covered with a veneer of fine manners essentially vulgar lives, and both died drunkards. =53=: 2. =Bully Dawson.= "A swaggering sharper of Whitefriars."--Morley.