=117=: 28. =Refining those spirits.= The name animal spirits was given to a subtle fluid which, according to ancient medical notions, permeated the body and served in some way as the medium of sensation and volition. In its looser and more recent use the phrase means little more than nervous energy or sometimes physical vivacity. =118=: 3. =The spleen= was supposed to be the seat of melancholy or fretfulness, hence was often used for the melancholy itself. =118=: 5. =Vapours.= The blues, especially used of women. =120=: 8. =Dr. Sydenham.= Thomas Sydenham (1624-1689), the most noted physician of his time, surnamed "the English Hippocrates." =120=: 12. =Medicina Gymnastica=, _or a Treatise concerning the Power of Exercise_, by Francis Fuller, published in 1704. =120=: 14. =Exercise myself an hour every morning.= It may be doubted whether Mr. Addison kept up this healthful practice. At all events, like most of the fat club goers of the age, he gave evidence in his later years of the need of more vigorous physical exercise, and he died at the early age of forty-seven. =120=: 23. =A Latin treatise of exercises.= _Artis Gymnasticae apud antiquos_, by Hieronymus Mercurialis, Venice, 1569. XV. SIR ROGER GOES A-HUNTING This paper and XXX of the present collection were written by Eustace Budgell. This sanguine, brilliant, but ill-starred young man was a cousin of Addison's, an Oxford graduate, and a writer of considerable promise. He was introduced to public life by Addison, whom he accompanied as clerk when Addison went to Ireland as secretary. For a time Budgell was a member of the Irish Parliament, and seemed to have a successful career in prospect both in politics and in letters; but he became involved in unfortunate financial speculations, especially in the notorious South Sea Bubble, was guilty of forgery in his efforts to extricate himself, and finally, in despair, drowned himself in the Thames. =Motto.= "Cithaeron calls aloud and the dogs on Mount Taygetus."--Virgil, _Georgics_, iii. 43. Cithaeron and Taygetus were mountains, the one in Boeotia and the other in Laconia. =121=: 18. =The Bastile= (modern spelling, Bastille). The famous prison, for prisoners of state, in Paris; destroyed at the beginning of the French Revolution, July 14, 1789. The 14th of July is still a national holiday in France. =123=: 19. =Midsummer Night's Dream=, iv. 1. 124. =126=: 20. =Threw down his pole.= Such of the hunters as followed the chase on foot usually carried long vaulting poles, by the aid of which they could leap hedges, ditches, or miry places, and thus, by going cross country, often keep as close to the dogs as the mounted huntsmen. See Ashton's _Social Life in the Reign of Queen Anne_, Chap. xxiii.