Note 149 — XXIX. SIR ROGER AT THE PLAY
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Ridicule, chaff.
[150] Rustic, clown.
[151] Property or estate settled on a wife to be enjoyed after the death of her husband.
[152] Intimate union.
[153] I.e. a woman wearing a mask.
[154] Good courage.
[155] The society of.
[156] Livings.
[157] Getting their living in some way.
[158] Apprentice.
[159] A minor, one not twenty-one years of age.
[160] Those who have given security for him. But it is difficult to get any precise meaning from the sentence—another instance of Steele's carelessness of expression.
[161] Varied.
[162] Marcus Tullius Cicero.