Now to Lloyd’s Coffee-house he never fails,
  To read the Letters, and attend the Sales.

It was afterwards removed to Pope’s Head Alley, as ’the New Lloyd’s Coffee House;’ again removed in 1774 to a corner of the Old Royal Exchange; and in the building of the new Exchange was provided with the rooms now known as ‘Lloyd’s Subscription Rooms,’ an institution which forms part of our commercial system.]

[Footnote 2:  Charles Lillie, the perfumer in the Strand, at the corner of Beaufort Buildings—­where the business of a perfumer is at this day carried on—­appears in the 16th, 18th, and subsequent numbers of the ‘Spectator’, together with Mrs. Baldwin of Warwick Lane, as a chief agent for the sale of the Paper.  To the line which had run

  ’LONDON:  Printed for Sam.  Buckley, at the Dolphin in Little
  Britain; and Sold by A.  Baldwin in Warwick-Lane; where
  Advertisements are taken in;’

there was then appended: 

  ’as also by Charles Lillie, Perfumer, at the Corner of
  Beaufort-Buildings in the Strand’.

Nine other agents, of whom complete sets could be had, were occasionally set forth together with these two in an advertisement; but only these are in the colophon.]

[Footnote 3:  Oxonian]

[Footnote 4:  Gilbert Burnet, author of the ‘History of the Reformation,’ and ‘History of his own Time,’ was Bishop of Salisbury from 1689 to his death in 1715.  Addison here quotes: 

’Some Letters containing an Account of what seemed most remarkable in Travelling through Switzerland, Italy, some parts of Germany, &c., in the Years 1685 and 1686.  Written by G. Burnet, D.D., to the Honourable R. B.’

In the first letter, which is from Zurich, Dr. Burnet speaks of many Inscriptions at Lyons of the late and barbarous ages, as ’Bonum Memoriam’, and ‘Epitaphium hunc’.  Of 23 Inscriptions in the Garden of the Fathers of Mercy, he quotes one which must be towards the barbarous age, as appears by the false Latin in ‘Nimia’ He quotes it because he has ‘made a little reflection on it,’ which is, that its subject, Sutia Anthis, to whose memory her husband Cecalius Calistis dedicates the inscription which says

  ‘quaedum Nimia pia fuit, facta est Impia’

  (who while she was too pious, was made impious),

must have been publicly accused of Impiety, or her husband would not have recorded it in such a manner; that to the Pagans Christianity was Atheism and Impiety; and that here, therefore, is a Pagan husband’s testimony to the better faith, that the Piety of his wife made her a Christian.]

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No. 47.  Tuesday, April 24, 1711.  Addison.

      ‘Ride si sapis.’

      Mart.

Mr. Hobbs, in his Discourse of Human Nature, [1] which, in my humble Opinion, is much the best of all his Works, after some very curious Observations upon Laughter, concludes thus: