[539] This word, which meant much the same as, fop or dandy, is found in Bk. x. ch. 2 of Fielding’s Amelia (published in 1751):—­’A large assembly of young fellows, whom they call bucks.’  Less than forty years ago, in the neighbourhood of London, it was, I remember, still commonly applied by the village lads to the boys of a boarding-school.

[540] This word was at this time often used in a loose sense, though Johnson could not have so used it.  Thus Horace Walpole, writing on May 16, 1759 (Letters, iii. 227), tells a story of the little Prince Frederick.  ’T’other day as he was with the Prince of Wales, Kitty Fisher passed by, and the child named her; the Prince, to try him, asked who that was?  “Why, a Miss.”  “A Miss,” said the Prince of Wales, “why are not all girls Misses?” “Oh! but a particular sort of Miss—­a Miss that sells oranges."’ Mr. Cunningham in a note on this says:—­’Orange-girls at theatres were invariably courtesans.’

[541] Governor was the term commonly given to a tutor, especially a travelling tutor.  Thus Peregrine Pickle was sent first to Winchester and afterwards abroad ’under the immediate care and inspection of a governor.’ Peregrine Pickle, ch. xv.

[542] He and his wife returned before the end of the War of Independence.  On the way back she showed great spirit when their ship was attacked by a French man of war.  Chambers’s Rebellion in Scotland, ii. 329.

[543] I do not call him the Prince of Wales, or the Prince, because I am quite satisfied that the right which the House of Stuart had to the throne is extinguished.  I do not call him, the Pretender, because it appears to me as an insult to one who is still alive, and, I suppose, thinks very differently.  It may be a parliamentary expression; but it is not a gentlemanly expression.  I know, and I exult in having it in my power to tell, that THE ONLY PERSON in the world who is intitled to be offended at this delicacy, thinks and feels as I do; and has liberality of mind and generosity of sentiment enough to approve of my tenderness for what even has been Blood Royal.  That he is a prince by courtesy, cannot be denied; because his mother was the daughter of Sobiesky, king of Poland.  I shall, therefore, on that account alone, distinguish him by the name of Prince Charles Edward.  BOSWELL.  To have called him the Pretender in the presence of Flora Macdonald would have been hazardous.  In her old age, ’such is said to have been the virulence of the Jacobite spirit in her composition, that she would have struck any one with her fist who presumed, in her hearing, to call Charles the Pretender.’  Chambers’s Rebellion in Scotland, ii. 330.

[544] This, perhaps, was said in allusion to some lines ascribed to Pope, on his lying, at John Duke of Argyle’s, at Adderbury, in the same bed in which Wilmot, Earl of Rochester, had slept: