[Footnote 27:  Though I find Worcester in the Mirror for Magistrates.]

[Footnote 28:  This was written twenty years ago, and now (1890) I cannot open an English journal without coming upon an Americanism.]

[Footnote 29:  The Rev. A.L.  Mayhew of Wadham College, Oxford, has convinced me that I was astray in this.]

[Footnote 30:  Dame, in English, is a decayed gentlewoman of the same family.]

[Footnote 31:  Which, whether in that form, or under its aliases witch-grass and cooch-grass, points us back to its original Saxon quick.]

[Footnote 32:  And, by the way, the Yankee never says ‘o’nights,’ but uses the older adverbial form, analogous to the German nachts.]

[Footnote 33:  Greene in his Quip for an Upstart Courtier says, ’to square it up and downe the streetes before his mistresse.’]