[Footnote 164:  This term is used in Bancroft’s “Two Books of Epigrams and Epitaphs,” 1639.  I take it to have been an accepted one of that day.]

[Footnote 165:  “A delicate Diet for daintie mouthed Dronkardes, wherin the fowle Abuse of common carowsing and quaffing with hartie Draughtes is honestlie admonished.”  By George Gascoigne, Esquier. 1576.]

[Footnote 166:  I shall preserve the story in the words of Whitelocke; it was something ludicrous, as well as terrific.

“From Berkshire (in May, 1650) that five drunkards agreed to drink the king’s health in their blood, and that each of them should cut off a piece of his buttock, and fry it upon the gridiron, which was done by four of them, of whom one did bleed so exceedingly, that they were fain to send for a chirurgeon, and so were discovered.  The wife of one of them hearing that her husband was amongst them, came to the room, and taking up a pair of tongs laid about her, and so saved the cutting of her husband’s flesh.”—­Whitelocke’s Memorials, p. 453, second edition.]

[Footnote 167:  Burnet’s Life of Sir Matthew Hale.]

[Footnote 168:  Calamities of Authors, vol. ii. p. 313.]

[Footnote 169:  It first appeared in a review of his “Memoirs.”]

[Footnote 170:  The words are, “Une derriere la scene.”  I am not sure of the-meaning, but an Act behind the scenes would be perfectly in character with this dramatic bard.]

[Footnote 171:  The exact reasoning of Sir Fretful, in the Critic, when Mrs. Dangle thought his piece “rather too long,” while he proves his play was “a remarkably short play.”—­“The first evening you can spare me three hours and a half, I’ll undertake to read you the whole, from beginning to end, with the prologue and epilogue, and allow time for the music between the acts.  The watch here, you know, is the critic.”]

[Footnote 172:  Again, Sir Fretful; when Dangle “ventures to suggest that the interest rather falls off in the fifth act;”—­“Rises, I believe you mean, sir.”—­No, I don’t, upon my word.”—­“Yes, yes, you do, upon my soul; it certainly don’t fall off; no, no, it don’t fall off.”]

[Footnote 173:  See ante. vol. i. p. 71.]

[Footnote 174:  The plates of the original edition are in the quarto form; they have been poorly reduced in the common editions in twelves.]

[Footnote 175:  The establishment could originally accommodate no more than six lunatics.  In 1644, the number had only increased to forty-four; and the building had nearly perished for want of funds, when the city raised a subscription and repaired it.  After the great fire, it was re-established on a much larger scale in Moorfields.]

[Footnote 176:  Stowe’s “Survey of London,” Book i.]

[Footnote 177:  “The Academy of Armory,” Book ii. c. 3, p. 161.  This is a singular work, where the writer has contrived to turn the barren subjects of heraldry into an entertaining Encyclopaedia, containing much curious knowledge on almost every subject; but this folio more particularly exhibits the most copious vocabulary of old English terms.  It has been said that there are not more than twelve copies extant of this very rare work, which is probably not true. [It is certainly not correct; the work is, however, rare and valuable.]]