But stay; me thinks some Vizard-Mask I see
    Cast out her Lure from the mid Gallery: 
    About her all the fluttering Sparks are rang’d;
    The Noise continues, though the Scene is chang’d: 
    Now growling, sputt’ring, wauling, such a clutter! 
    ’Tis just like Puss defendant in a Gutter.

And again, in his Prologue to Southerne’s The Disappointment (1684), he has:—­

    Last there are some, who take their first degrees
    Of lewdness in our middle galleries: 
    The doughty bullies enter bloody drunk,
    Invade and grabble one another’s punk.

p. 257 Hortensius.  Cato Uticensis is said in 56 B.C. to have ceded his wife Marcia to Q. Hortensius, and at the death of Hortensius in 50 B.C. to have taken her back again—­Plutarch, Cato Min., 25.

p. 258 he has a Fly.  A fly = a familiar.  From the common old belief that an attendant demon waited on warlocks and witches in the shape of a fly, or some similar insect. cf.  Jonson’s The Alchemist, I (1610):—­

You are mistaken, doctor,
Why he does ask one but for cups and horses,
A rifling fly, none of your great familiars.

Also Massinger’s The Virgin Martyr, ii, II:—­

Courtiers have flies
That buzz all news unto them.

p. 271 Snow-hill.  The old Snow Hill, a very narrow and steep highway between Holborn Bridge and Newgate, was cleared away when Holborn Viaduct was made in 1867.  In the days of Charles II it was famous for its chapmen, vendors of ballads with rough woodcuts atop.  Dorset, lampooning Edward Howard, has the following lines: 

                           Whence

Does all this mighty mass of dullness spring,
Which in such loads thou to the stage dost bring? 
Is’t all thine own?  Or hast thou from Snow Hill
The assistance of some ballad-making quill?

p. 271 Cuckolds Haven.  This was the name given to a well-known point in the Thames.  It is depicted by Hogarth, Industry and Idleness, No. 6.  Nahum Tate has a farce, borrowed from Eastward Hoe and The Devil’s an Ass, entitled Cuckold’s Haven; or, An Alderman no Conjuror (1685).

p. 278 Nice and Flutter.  The two typical Fops of the day.  Sir Courtly Nice, created by Mountford, is the hero of Crowne’s excellent comedy, Sir Courtly Nice (1685).  In Act v he sings a little song he has made on his Mistress:  ‘As I gaz’d unaware, On a face so fair—.’  Sir Fopling Flutter is the hero of Etheredge’s masterpiece, The Man of Mode; or, Sir Fopling Flutter (1676).  Sir Fopling, a portrait of Beau Hewitt, became proverbial.  The role was created by Smith.

p. 278 shatterhead.  A rare word for shatter-(scatter) brained. cf.  The Countess of Winchilsea, Miscellany Poems (1713), ’Pri’thee shatter-headed Fop’.