[Footnote 338: A small violin or fiddle. See No. 160.]
[Footnote 339: A dancing-master, who either was French, or pretended to be so. See No. 109.]
[Footnote 340: A song of Waller's begins:
"Behold the brand of beauty tost! See, how the motion doth dilate the flame!" (Dobson). ]
[Footnote 341: The rigadoon was a dance for two persons. Cf. _Guardian_, No. 154: "We danced a rigadoon together."]
[Footnote 342: On the site of Eaton and Belgrave Squares. See _Spectator_, No. 137: "The Five Fields towards Chelsea."]
[Footnote 343: In "Bartholomew Fair," act ii. sc. i. Overdo went to the Fair in disguise, and being mistaken for a cutpurse, was well beaten.]
[Footnote 344: Salter, a barber, opened a coffee-house in Cheyne Walk, Chelsea, in 1695. Sir Harry Sloane, whose servant he had been, gave him some curiosities to start a museum. Others, including Admiral Munden and his fellow-officers, added to the collection, and the first catalogue appeared in 1729. The more startling curiosities were, of course, not genuine. The remains of the collection were sold in 1799 for about £50. A view of Salter's house will be found in Timbs' "Clubs and Club Life in London." Verses of a more or less coarse nature by Don Saltero appeared not unfrequently in the "British Apollo," in 1709.]
[Footnote 346: Salter played very badly on the fiddle.]
[Footnote 347: "Sir Roger de Coverley," the famous country-dance tune.]
[Footnote 348: By Dr. Henry Aldrich, Dean of Christ Church, Oxford, where Steele matriculated.]
[Footnote 349: "De Poematum cantu, et viribus Rythmi," 1673.]
[Footnote 350: Master Nicholas. See "Don Quixote," chap. v.]
[Footnote 351: There were two John Tradescants (father and son) who collected objects of natural history. Their collection formed the foundation of the Ashmolean Museum at Oxford. The "Museum Tradescantianum: or, A Collection of Rarities preserved at South Lambeth, near London, by John Tradescant," contains interesting portraits of both John Tradescant, senior, and John Tradescant, junior, as well as a plate of the Tradescant arms.]
[Footnote 352: A sclopeta or sclopetta was a hand-gun used by Spaniards.]
[Footnote 353: Toledo was famous for its sword-blades.]
[Footnote 354: Salter had an old grey muff, which he clapped constantly to his nose, and by which he was distinguishable at the distance of a quarter of a mile. His wife was none of the best, being much addicted to scolding.-(Nichols.)]