8. Sulli, the famous composer.
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. It would seem that about this time the French were adopting theirpresent mode of pronunciation, so capriciously distinct from theorthography. 10. "Queen Dido, or the wandering Prince of Troy," an old ballad,printed in the "Reliques of Ancient Poetry," in which the ghost ofqueen Dido thus addresses the perfidious AEneas: Therefore prepare thy flitting soul,To wander with me in the air;When deadly grief shall make it howl,Because of me thou took'st no care.Delay not time, thy glass is run,Thy date is past, thy life is done. 11. _Pricking_, in hare-hunting, is tracking the foot of the game bythe eye, when the scent is lost.] 12. The facetious Tom Brown, in his 2d dialogue on Mr Bayes' changinghis religion, introduces our poet saying, "Likewise he (Cleveland) having the misfortune to call thatdomestic animal a cock, The Baron Tell-clock of the night, I could never, igad, as I came home from the tavern, meet awatchman or so, but I presently asked him, 'Baron Tell-clock of thenight, pr'ythee how goes the time?" 13. Artemidorus, the sophist of Cnidos, was the soothsayer whoprophesied the death of Caesar. Shakespeare has introduced him inhis tragedy of "Julius Caesar." 14. A common rendezvous of the rakes and bullies of the time; "Forwhen they expected the most polished hero in Nemours, I gave them aruffian reeking from Whetstone's Park." Dedication to Lee's"Princess of Cleves." In his translation of Ovid's "Love Elegies,"Lib. II, Eleg. XIX. Dryden mentions, "an easy Whetstone whore."
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