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1 For instance … ‘But it dos not please me.’ Act 3, Scene I
2 ‘It’s means ring.
3 The ancheint Mice believed that at sun-set the sun cut a hole in the earth for its self.
4 Men live in Mouse-land.
5 Bresent – An Animal-Landish coin, amounting to 6/-.
6 Mus-is = mouse.
7 The kingdoms of Boxen although united in Parliament retain their monarchs, the Rajah of India & the King of Animaland.
8 ‘Little Master’, was the speaker of the Parliament, and had many powers, including that of being the constant guardian & adviser of the kings. The present one, Lord Big, exercised much influence over King Benjamin & the Rajah, as he had been their tutor in their youth: in private he neglected all the usual formulate of adress to a prince: To wit next line ‘Boys … etc’.
9 Polonius Green, a parrot of low birth, & the owner of a line of colliers.
10 Boxonian inns have usually 2 rooms, the Inner or 1st class, & the Outer or 2nd.
11 ‘Pipe of Montserrat’ – a glass of Montserrat wine sucked through a straw or pipe.
12 The Goose Inn, the 1st Murry restaurant and hotel.
13 ‘He was the owner of several Music-halls over the country, called the Alhambras.
14 Manager of the R.S.Ry., a shrewd business man but a gay enough person in his moments of leisure.
15 Walterians & Diripians were the 2 rival Parties. W’s upheld old ideas & D’s wanted reform & a new Clique as the old had held office very long.
16 A grand opera of the heaviest type.
17 The reader will notice that KR, TS, GG, MH, NH, and CHM, by their substantial agreement with one another, establish themselves as first class texts, and at the same time degrade OH and LH to the level of ‘bad’ texts.
18 In references to MET the numeral refers to the ‘Number’ of the paper, not to the page. Careless duplications of number in the original have forced me to number the loose METs thus; – 7, 7A, 8, 9, 9A.
19 Lewis Papers, vol. III, p. 76. The original of the Lewis Papers is in Wheaton College, Wheaton, Illinois, and there is a copy in the Bodleian Library, Oxford.
20 Ibid., p. 80.
21 Ibid., p. 82.
22 Ibid., pp. 88–91.
23 Ibid., p. 227.