13. ‘A light should be given to bashful maidens in which coy modesty may hope to have concealment.’ Ovid, Amores, v. 7–8. – Ed.
15. A man worth £100,000. – Ed.
16. ‘The smell of money is sweet from any source whatever.’ Mandeville is probably giving an inexact paraphrase of Juvenal, Satires, xiv, 204–5. – Ed.
17. A bailiff. – Ed.
18. Sallust, Bellum Catilinae, v, 4. – Ed.
19. This paragraph was added in 1723. – Ed.
20. The Duc de Villars (1653–1734). – Ed.
21. The war of the Grand Alliance (1689–97) and the War of the Spanish Succession (1701–13). – Ed.
22. Rich spoils. – Ed.
24. ‘Its sweetest pleasure leads each creature on.’ Virgil, Eclogues, ii, 65. – Ed.
25. ‘That there be full bellies and plenty of work for the organs below the belly.’ Erasmus, ‘Cyclops sive Evangeliophorus,’ Colloquies. – Ed.
26. John Eachard, author of Grounds and Occasions of the Contempt of the Clergy and Religion (1670). – Ed.
27. The parson’s wife in Mrs Abigail; or an Account of a Female Skirmish between the Wife of a Country Squire, and the Wife of a Doctor in Divinity (1702). – Ed.
30. Lye. – Ed.
31. Chelsea Hospital, by Sir Christopher Wren. – Ed.
32. The crisis was occasioned by a war with France and England. – Ed.
33. The remainder of this paragraph was added in 1723. – Ed.
34. A mistake for Louis VI or possibly Louis VII. – Ed.
35. The great mining centre of eighteenth-century Peru. – Ed.
36. Horace, Epistles, I, ii, 62. – Ed.
37. The sergeant in George Farquhar’s The Recruiting Officer (1706). – Ed.
38. In A Satyr against Mankind (1675). – Ed.
40. La Rochefoucauld. – Ed.
41. In Cleomenes (1692). – Ed.