=197=:1. =Battle of Steenkirk=, August 3, 1692, in which the English were defeated by the French. The battle gave name to a kind of loose cravat or neckcloth for men, introduced from Paris, which was fashionable for years, called a "steenkirk" or "steinkirk," because its careless style suggested the eagerness with which the victorious French gentlemen rushed into battle half dressed. =197=:18. =Pyrrhus=, the son of Achilles. In the play, Andromache, the "widow" of Hector, and "the distressed mother" of young Astyanax, after the fall of Troy is the captive of Pyrrhus. Pyrrhus wooes her, promising that if she become his wife, her son Astyanax shall be made king of Troy. She at last consents, secretly resolving to kill herself before the marriage can be consummated. But Hermione, betrothed to Pyrrhus, maddened with jealousy, incites the Greeks to rebellion against Pyrrhus, with the result that just as Astyanax has been proclaimed king, Pyrrhus is slain by Orestes, Hermione takes her own life, and Orestes goes mad. =198=:4. "=You can't imagine, sir, what 'tis to have to do with a widow!=" But Addison, just about this time, _did_ know how that was himself. See Introduction. =198=: 13. =Your dramatic rules.= Perhaps the knight has in mind the dramatic "unities" of time, place, and subject; but his next sentence shows that he has no very definite rules in mind. He only knows that Mr. Spectator has been writing some learned papers of late on the drama and poetry; and he cannot see why a play so simple as this admits any laboured criticism. =198=: 21. =Are now to see Hector's ghost.= Because at the beginning of the fourth act Andromache proposes to visit the tomb of Hector. =199=: 15. =The old fellow in whiskers.= Perhaps Phenix, a friend of Pyrrhus. XXX. WILL HONEYCOMB'S EXPERIENCES =Motto.= "The greedy lioness the wolf pursues, The wolf the kid; the wanton kid, the browse." --Virgil, _Eclogues_, ii. 63. Dryden's tr. =202=: 24. =Miss Jenny.= Notice the use of the epithet "Miss"; the day before Will Wimble would have said "Mistress Jenny." See note on p. 248. =203=: 21. =The book I had considered last Saturday=, in _Spectator_, No. 357, April 19, 1712. It was one of the famous series of papers on Milton's _Paradise Lost_. =203=: 23. =The following lines.= _Paradise Lost_, x. 888-908. They are not quoted quite accurately. XXXI. SIR ROGER AT VAUXHALL =Motto.= "Their gardens are maintained by vice." --Juvenal, _Satires_, i. 75.