[174] _New tragedy._ _The Distressed Mother_, by Ambrose Phillips.
[175] _Mohocks._ Gangs of rowdies who roamed the streets at night and
assaulted passers-by. See _Spectator_, NO. 324
[176] _Put on._ Put on speed.
[177] _Seasoned with humanity._ Tempered with kindliness.
[178] _Pyrrhus._ Son of Achilles, to whom Hector's widow, Andromache,
had fallen as his share of the plunder of Troy.
[179] _Pyrrhus his._ This use is due to a wrong idea that the possessive
termination is an abbreviation of _his_.
[180] _Astyanax._ Son of Hector and Andromache (and subject of one of
the most touching passages in Homer).
[181] _Smoke._ A slang word, equivalent to the modern _rag_.