=65=: 19. =The city.= Technically "the city" is that part of London north of the Thames from Temple Bar on the west to the Tower on the east, and extending as far as Finsbury on the north, which constituted the original walled city of London. It is the part of London under the immediate control of the lord mayor and aldermen, and its residents are "citizens." The trade and business of London was in Addison's time almost entirely--and still is very largely--included in this area. Sir Andrew Freeport, as a merchant, of course stands up for the city. =66=: 4. =The wits of King Charles's time.= The comedies of the writers of the time of Charles II--Farquhar, Wycherley, Congreve, Vanbrugh--usually turn upon intrigue of which the wives and daughters of citizens are the victims. =66=: 6. =Horace= (65-8 B.C.) and =Juvenal= (_circa_ 60-140 A.D.), the masters of Latin satire; =Boileau= (1636-1711), a French satirist and critic. =66=: 12. =Persons of the Inns of Court.= See _Spectator_, No. 21. =66=: 25. =Fox hunters.= Whatever Mr. Spectator may have said in private, it does not seem that he had thus far written any paper disparaging fox hunters. A later essay, No. 474,--not written by Addison,--is rather severe upon them. Addison's famous picture of the Tory fox hunter is found in _The Freeholder_, No. 22. =67=: 23. =Vices ... too trivial for the chastisement of the law, and too fantastical for the cognizance of the pulpit.= This is an admirable indication of the range and purpose of the Spectator's satire. =68=: 16. =The Roman triumvirate.= Octavius, Antony, Lepidus. For the account of their "debate," see Plutarch's _Life of Mark Antony_ or Shakespeare's version of it in _Julius Cæsar_, iv. 1. =68=: 27. =Punch.= One Robert Powell, a hunchbacked dwarf, kept a puppet show, or "Punch's theatre," in Covent Garden. The speech of Punch was often very broad. See Ashton's _Social Life in the Reign of Queen Anne_, p. 215. V. A LADY'S LIBRARY =Motto.= "She had not accustomed her woman's hands to the distaff or the skeins of Minerva."--Virgil, _Æneid_, vii. 305. =69=: 13. =Leonora.= A letter from a Leonora, perhaps the lady of this paper, is to be found in _Spectator_, No. 91. =70=: 4. =Great jars of china.= The craze for collecting china was then at its height. It is satirized by Steele in _Tatler_, No. 23, and by Addison in No. 10 of _The Lover_. =70=: 17. =Scaramouches.= The Scaramouch is a typical buffoon in Italian farces; the name is derived from Scaramuccia, a famous Italian clown of the last half of the seventeenth century. =70=: 20. =Snuff box.= This indicates that the habit of snuff taking had been adopted by fine ladies. It would seem, however, to have been a new fashion, at all events with ladies. See Steele's criticism upon the habit in _Spectator_, No. 344. For curious facts with reference to the use of tobacco in the Queen Anne time, see Ashton, _Social Life in the Reign of Queen Anne_, Chap. xvii.