Burney, Frances. Love and Fashion. Ed. with an Introduction by Jessica Richard. British Women Playwrights around 1800. 15 April 2000.

Notes

Works Cited:

1. I.1. with the hip: "Down in the hip(s): said of a horse when the haunch-bone is injured; hence, fig., out of sorts, out of spirits" (OED). (back)

2. I.1. Pencilled revisions emend this to:
Dawson.
What, the fellow who has been dodging about so all the morning?

Innis.
Yes. & it has put me in a flurry - (back)

3. I.1. Pencilled revisions emend this to:
Dawson.
Why he was always pretty unbearable, Mrs. Innis. Lauk! to see his elder Brother, Mr. Exbury, that's only got his natural Estate, as one may say, being no more that what comes to him from Father to son, so genteel-behaved, & agreeable! - while this, that only got his topping income by by fortune-hunting, in comparison, to be so highty & imperial! (back)

4. I.1. Pencilled revisions emend the last word of this speech:
Dawson.
Very true, Mrs. Innis; & of all things what I hate most, is a man's singing his own praises. My lord's got such a trick of it, that it has made me take a resolve never to speak up for myself as long as I live; though I'll consent to be hanged if I think I've my fellow either for quickness or honesty; or for sobriety, or, indeed, for the matter of that, for anything that's proper; - but it's what I make a rule never to mention.  (back)

5. I.1. Red crayon addition to this speech: 
Dawson. 
Ah, Mrs. Innis, if I were but as happy as Mr. Davis! to live under the same roof with you, & to serve lord Exbury! - Then you'd see -  (back)

6. I.1. In pencil, "Lord Exbury" is emended to "Mr Exbury". (back)

7. I.1. Pencilled revisions emend this to:
Strange Man. 
Would a' so? 'Tis to be hoped, then, we should have his worshipful Lordship to go along with us. I likes good company. (back)

8. I.1. Pencilled revisions emend this passage:
Dawson. 
A thief, or a Spy, or a fortune-teller, or somewhat of that sort.

Innis.
A fortune-teller? O lud! I'll run and make somebody call him back into the house-keeper's room. You must neither of you come. I'll let nobody hear what my fortune is - till I know how I like it. [Exit in haste. ] (back)

9. I.1. a scrub: "a mean insignificant fellow, a person of little account or poor appearance" (OED). (back)

10. I.1. Four lines cancelled in ink here. According to Sabor, they read: "or toss himself into a river or run himself through the body - or else knock his brains out against a wall - two or three of these things." (Sabor 112). (back)

11. I.1. "from him" cancelled in pencil. (back)

12. I.1. Speech emended in pencil to read:
Davis.
Refused lord Ardville? I could give her a kiss the next time I see her.  (back)

13. I.1. Davis' lines here appear to be crossed in pencil for omission. (back)

14. I.1. "Lord Exbury" emended in pencil to "Mr. Exbury". (back)

15. I.1. wise-acre: "One who thinks himself, or wishes to be thought, wise; a pretender to wisdom; a foolish person with an air or affectation of wisdom" (OED). (back)

16. I.1. Captain Cooke: "James Cook, who was killed in Hawaii in 1799, circumnavigated the earth on three occaissions. Burney's brother James accompanied Cook in his second and third expeditions" (Sabor 113). (back)

17. I.1. This should be Davis' speech, not Dawson's, since Dawson has just exited. (back)

18. I.1. public days: days, often held monthly, when the manor house on a country estate was open to visitors, particularly tenants. (back)

19. I.1. noddy: "a fool, simpleton, noodle" (OED). (back)

20. I.1. old Toby: "a contemptuous term for an old man" (Sabor 117). (back)

21. I.1. Three lines cancelled in ink here, which read (according to Sabor): "He don't believe his fellow can be found in the whold world! no, not if Captain Cook was brought to life again, on purpose to go round it, & look him out" (Sabor 117). (back)

22. I.2. Grosvenor Square: a glamourous residential square in London. (back)

23. I.2. Sabor notes, "on the interest of £11,000, about £550 per annum when invested in the 5% government funds, the couple could live tolerably but not fashionably. They would not be 'poor,' but they would be 'obscure'" (Sabor 118). (back)

24. I.2. happenned: sic. Burney's consistent spelling of the word. (back)

25. I.2. settlement: a legal document laying out the allowance (called "pin money") a husband will give his wife during his lifetime and what jointure, or property or annuity, she will receive after his death. (back)

26. I.2. Gretna Green: a small Scottish town just across the border where English couples could marry without their parents' consent, according to the looser regulations of the Scottish Presbyterian Church (Pool 183). (back)

27. I.2. pin-money: a married woman's "small personal annual allowance" (Pool 182). (back)

28. I.2. Six lines cancelled here in ink, which read, according to Sabor: 
you think, though small - 

Davis.
Yes, my lord, a comfortable house enough for people of about forty pounds a year or it may be a hundred, or so.

Lord Exbury.
Speak simply to the facts, Davis, and if the house be free then hasten back and see (back)

29. I.2. Originally read: "will ever live to see" - "live to" cancelled in ink. (back)

30. I.2. methuselah: name of a biblical patriarch, "stated to have lived 969 years (Gen. v.27); hence used as a type of extreme longevity" (OED). (back)

31. II.2. chit: "a person considered as no better than a child" (OED). (back)

32. II.2. Philander: "a proper name in story, drama, dialogue... esp. for a lover" (OED). (back)

33. II.2. Opera box: Sabor notes "boxes at the opera house, the King's Theatre in the Haymarket, amounted to nearly two hundred at the turn of the century. They could be privately subscribed for during the first fifty nights of the season. Possession of an opera box was a prominent sign of wealth" (Sabor 125).
Table: Sir Archy is referring to the games of Pharo, a roulette-like card game that, as a wealthy aristocrat, Hilaria (as Lady Ardville) would regularly hold. The odds heavily favor the banker, or organizer of the game, and Sir Archy hopes either to take advantage of her marriage to play Pharo or to profit from her Pharo bank. (back)

34. II.2. Pharo Table: See note 33.  (back)

35. II.2. Muster Wallentine: According to Sabor, "the Strange Man's confusion of v and w indicates his Cockney origin" (Sabor 131). (back)

36. II.2. Inserted at this point: It's not much of an honour.  (back)

37. II.3. recruit: "to furnish with a fresh supply of something; to replenish" (OED). (back)

38. II.3. red Coat: a soldier. (back)

39. II.3. A young Widow's jointure: see note 25. (back)

40. II.3. Morpheus: the Greek god of dreams; hence drowsiness and a dull life.
Coronet: "a small crown, indicating that the owner belongs to the peerage" (Sabor 134). (back)

41. III.1. touch'd the ready: "been given money" (Sabor 137). (back)

42. III.1. cross his hand: give him money. (back)

43. III.1. head-piece: "figuratove for 'intelligence'" (Sabor 138). (back)

44. III.1. star: stare. (back)

45. III.1. "If he doesn't, leave it be" (Sabor 140). (back)

46. III.2. Emended to read: What, you don't think the country very amusing? (back)

47. III.2. nabob muslins: 'nabob' (from Urdu nawwab) indicated in eighteenth-century English a person "who has returned from India with a large fortune acquired there" (OED). Lord Ardville himself is a nabob, as Innis tells us in the first act: "They say he was not half so proud before he got his title, upon going that last time to the Indies, where he made his great fortune." 'Nabob muslings' thus either simply means, figuratively, costly fabrics, or may refer specifically to fancy Indian muslin. See Burney's play A Busy Day (c.1802) for further treatment of nabob figures. (back)

48. III.2. Carter'f frocks: "cheap outer garments, such as those worn by cart drivers" (Sabor 142). (back)

49. III.2. "just" is cancelled. (back)

50. III.2. Merry Andrew: "a clown or buffoon"; Punch: "the principal character in puppet shows" (Sabor 143). (back)

51. III.2. Emended to: he has now in hand. (back)

52. III.2. Pig-race: Sabor notes, "Burney describes a pig-catching contest in her journal for 19 August 1773 (Early Journals, I, 290) and in The Wanderer, p. 461" (Sabor 146). (back)

53. III.2. "her upon" is cancelled. (back)

54. III.2. Baronight: Baronet. (back)

55. III.2. Emended to : He'll speak out, now!  (back)

56. III.2. premterring: preremptory. (back)

57. IV.1. Emended to: I humbly beg pardon, (back)

58. IV.1. Prizes in state lotteries were rarely, if ever, as high as £20,000. (back)

59. IV.1. past you is cancelled. (back)

60. IV.1. celadon: "a type name for a lover" (Sabor 160). (back)

61. IV.2. Insertion: Your perpetual amplifications fatigue me.  (back)

62. IV.2. about emended to upon. (back)

63. IV.2. a stound: "a state of stupefaction or amazement" (OED). (back)

64. IV.2. 'tremblingly alive': "Or touch, if tremblingly alive all o'er,/ To smart and agonize at ev'ry pore?" Pope, An Essay on Man (1733-4), I.197. (back)

65. IV.3. "Mother Red Cap was the name given to an aged London nurse; Mother Shipton was a reputed prophetess, Ursula Southill, born c. 1485, notorious for her ugliness" (Sabor 169). (back)

66. IV.3. offer is cancelled. (back)

67. IV.3. Pattens: a working-class woman's footwear. (back)

68. IV.3. Without Lord Ardville's wealth, Hilaria would have to travel in a hired carriage rather than one owned by her husband. (back)

69. IV.3. chagrin case: green-dyed leather. (back)

70. IV.3. an affair of honour: Sir Archy insinuates that gambling debts have ruined Valentine. (back)

71. V.1. as the good old Gentleman says...: allusion untraced. (back)

72. V.1. leading apes: "from the proverbial 'old maids lead apes in hell'" (Sabor 174). (back)

73. V.4. layman: a wooden model used by painters (OED). (back)

74. V.4. palaver: "to talk profusely or unnecessarily" (OED). (back)