pretends
to't," are carefully expunged.]

[Footnote 4: E.g., Bloom to Mrs. Driver, "One moment into that Closet, if
it be but to read the Practice of Piety" becomes "One Moment into that
Closet, Dear, dear Creature; they say it's mighty prettily furnish'd," And
in her aside, "I vow, I've a good mind; but Virtue--the Devil, I ne're was
so put to't i' my Life," for the words "the Devil" are substituted the
words "and Reputation."]

[Footnote 5: No. 50, Sept. 14; No. 61, Oct. 26.]

[Footnote 6: According to the impression I have of this "morbus" it was a
skin-ailment particularly appropriated to beggars, who might contract it
upon long exposure to filth and louse-bites. Even then, though there would
doubtless be a certain amount "of discomfort about it, it would scarcely
prove fatal.]

[Footnote 7: This and subsequent vital statistics as to Baker's university
and clerical career are from the account of him in J. and J.A. Venn,
_Alumni Cantabrigienses_, 1922 _et sq_.]

[Footnote 8: _British Apollo_, No. 49, Sept. 14, 1709.]

[Footnote 9: _Ibid._]

[Footnote 10: Both Paul Bunyan Anderson, "The history and authorship of
Mrs. Crackenthorpe's _Female Tatler_," _MP_, XXVIII (1931), 354-60, and
Walter Graham, "Thomas Baker, Mrs. Manley, and _The Female Tatler_," _MP_,
XXXIV (1937), 267-72, think that some, at least, of the _F.T._ is from
Baker's pen, but they disagree as to what part and how much. I am
considering the matter and may have an opinion to express in future.]

[Footnote 11: _Victoria History of Bedfordshire_, II, 181 n.; III, 128.]

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