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_Boar-cat_, tom-cat.

NOTES TO APPENDIX.

64. _To him that has, etc._ The quotation is not from the Bible, but from Martial, v. 81:--

”Semper pauper eris, si pauper es, Aemiliane.

Dantur opes nulli nunc nisi divitibus.”

Cp. also Davison's Poet. Rhap., i. 95. Ed. Bullen.

126. _Upon s...o...b..e._ Dr. Grosart quotes an Ellis s...o...b..e [_i.e._, Scobell], baptised at Dean Priory in 1632, and Jeffery s...o...b..e buried in 1654.

200. _Upon Gubbs._ Printed in _Witts Recreations_, 1650, without alteration. To save repet.i.tion we may give here a list of the other Epigrams in this Appendix which are printed in _Witt's Recreations_, reserving variations of reading for special notes:--206, _Upon Bounce_; 239, _Upon Guess_; 311, _Upon Sneap_; 357, _Long and Lazy_; 379, _Upon Doll_; 380, _Upon Screw_; 381, _Upon Linnit_; 400, _Upon Rasp_; 410, _Upon Skinns_; 429, _Upon Craw_; 435, _Jack and Jill_; 574, _Upon Umber_; 639, _Upon Lungs_; 650, _Upon Cob_; 652, _Upon Skoles_; 668, _Upon Zelot_; 705, _Upon Trigg_; 797, _Upon Bice_; 798, _Upon Trencherman_; 834, _Upon Punchin_; 888, _Upon Lulls_; 1027, _Upon Boreman_; 1087, _Upon Gut_; 1108, _Upon Rump_.

305. _Fearing to break the king's commandement._ In 1608 there was issued a proclamation containing ”Orders conceived by the Lords of his Maiestie's Privie Counsell and by his Highnesse speciall direction, commanded to be put in execution for the restraint of killing and eating of flesh the next Lent”. This was re-issued ten years later (there is no intermediate issue at the British Museum), and from 1619 onwards became annual under James and Charles in the form of ”A proclamation for restraint of killing, dressing, and eating of Flesh in Lent, or on Fish dayes, appointed by the Law, to be hereafter strictly observed by all sorts of people”.

420. _Upon Bridget_. Loss of teeth is the occasion of more than one of Martial's epigrams.

456. _The tun of Heidelberg_: in the cellar under the castle at Heidelberg is a great cask supposed to be able to hold 50,000 gallons.

574. _As Umber states_: ”as Umber _swears_”.--W. R.

639. _His breath does fly-blow_: ”doth” for ”does”.--W. R.

652. _One blast_: ”and” for ”one”.--W. R.

668. _Yet! see_: ”ye see”.--W. R.