[15] _Lord Rochester and Sir George Etherege._ Well-known leaders of
fashion and dissipation.
[16] _Bully Dawson._ A notorious swaggerer and sharper.
[17] _Dressed._ _I.e._, fashionably.
[18] _Quorum._ Panel of magistrates.
[19] _Game Act._ Laws dating from very early times and regulating the
licence to kill game.
[20] _Humoursome._ Capricious.
[21] _Aristotle and Longinus._ Aristotle's _Poetics_ and Longinus on the
_Sublime_ are classics of literary criticism.
[22] _Littleton or Coke._ Famous writers on law.
[23] _Demosthenes and Tully._ Demosthenes and M. Tullius Cicero, the
great orators of Athens and Rome respectively.
[24] _Wit._ Cleverness.
[25] _The Rose._ The Rose tavern was frequented by actors.
[26] _The world._ _I.e._, of public life.
[27] _Own vindication._ Self-assertion.
[28] _Civil._ Civilian.
[29] _Humorists._ Eccentrics.
[30] _Turned._ Shaped.
[31] _Habits._ Clothes; _i.e._, fashions.
[32] _Chamber-counsellor._ Barrister whose practice is confined to
consultations.
[33] _Divine topic._ Topic of divinity.