Note 301 — ACT I., SCENE I.
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A statist is a statesman. So in Ben Jonson's "Cynthia's Revels," act ii. sc. 3: "Next is your statist's face, a serious, solemn, and supercilious face, full of formal and square gravity."
And in "The Magnetick Lady," by the same, act i. sc. 7—
"He Will screw you out a secret from a statist."