also South’s _Sermons_ (1687):--’A God not to be flammed off with lies.’ p. 209 _Lusum_. i.e. Lewisham. p. 230 _in ure_. In use; practice. cf. John Taylor’s _The Pennyles Pilgrimage_ (4to 1618);-- For in the time that thieving was in ure The gentle fled to places more secure. p. 230 _betauder_. The meaning of this word (=to bedizen with tawdry finery) is plain. As it is only found here, the N.E.D. suggests it may be a nonce-verb. p. 230 _Spanish Paint_. Rouge, cf. Lady Wishfort in _The Way of the World_ (1700);--’I mean the Spanish paper, idiot. Complexion, darling, paint, paint, paint.’--Act iii, 1. p. 230 _prew_. Prim, modest. A very rare, affected little word. p. 230 _rant_. To be boisterously merry, cf. Farquhar, _The Constant Couple_ (1700), Act iv, 1:--’_Clincher jun_. I’ll court, and swear, and rant, and rake and go to the jubilee with the best of them.’ p. 233 _seditiously petitioning_. In allusion to the vast number of petitions which Shaftesbury procured from the counties in support of the Exclusion Bill. The rival factions, ‘Petitioners’ and ‘Abhorrers’ were the nucleus of the two great parties, Whigs and Tories. p. 236 _Tuberose_. The most fashionable perfume of the day. cf. Etheredge’s _The Man of Mode_ (1676), Act v, 1:--’_Belinda_. I ... told them I never wore anything but orange-flowers and tuberose.’ p. 245 _hits_. A stroke of luck; an opportunity. p. 246 _ignoramus_. The partial verdict of the Middlesex Grand Jury ignoring the bill of the indictment against Shaftesbury, 24 November, 1681. It is frequently alluded to by Dryden, Mrs. Behn, and the Tory writers. p. 248 _Albany_. James (II), Duke of York and Albany. p. 249 _Polanders_. Shaftesbury aspired to be chosen King of Poland in 1675 when John Sobieski was elected to that Throne. This piece of foolish ambition and a certain physical infirmity, to wit, an abscess that in order to preserve his life had to be kept continually open by a silver pipe, got him the nickname of Count Tapsky. In _The Medal_ (March, 1682) Dryden speaks of ‘The Polish Medal’, and Otway’s Prologue to _Venice Preserv’d_ (1682) ridicules Shaftesbury’s regal covetings thus:-- O Poland, Poland! had it been thy lot T’have heard in time of this Venetian plot, Thou surely chosen hadst one king from thence And honoured them, as thou hast England since. An elaborate and amusing piece of sarcasm on the same subject appeared in a pamphlet entitled _A Modest Vindication of the Earl of S----y, _In a Letter to a Friend concerning his being elected King of Poland_, 1682. Squibs and pasquinades such as _Scandalum Magnatum, or Potapski’s case; A Satire against Polish Oppression_ (1682), and the versified _Last Will and Testament of Anthony, King of Poland_ abounded. p. 251 _Tantivy_. Reckless, dare-devil. Said by Dr. Johnson to be derived from the sound of a hunting-horn.