[142] Sir Thomas Browne in _Vulgar Errors_ (Book 2, cap. 5) discusses this curious superstition at length:--'And first we hear it in every mouth, and in many good authors read it, that a diamond, which is the hardest of stones, not yielding unto steel, emery, or any thing but its own powder, is yet made soft, or broke by the blood of a goat. Thus much is affirmed by Pliny, Solinus, Albertus, Cyprian, Austin, Isidore, and many Christian writers: alluding herein unto the heart of man, and the precious blood of our Saviour, who was typified by the goat that was slain, and the scape goat in the wilderness: and at the effusion of whose blood, not only the hard hearts of his enemies relented, but the stony rocks and veil of the temple were shattered,' &c. [143] The expression, to 'carry coals' (i.e. to put up with insults) is too common to need illustration. [144] 4to. deaths prey. The change restores the metre. [145] 'Owe' for 'own' is very common in Shakespeare. [146] The 4to. prints this scene throughout as verse. [147] 'Larroones,' from Fr. _larron_ (a thief). Cf. Nabbes' _Bride_, iii. 3. 'Remercie, Monsieur. Voe call a me Cooke now! de greasie _Larone_!' [148] Quy. rogues. [149] Quy. had. There seems to be a reference to Stephen's martyrdom described in _The Acts_. [150] "Black Jack" and "bombard" were names given to wide leathern drinking-vessels. [151] A term in venery. [152] A hound's chaps were called "flews". [153] 'Sparabiles,' nails used by shoemakers. Nares quotes Herrick: Cob clouts his shoes, and, as the story tells, His thumb-nailes par'd afford him sperrables.' The word is of uncertain derivation. [154] 4to. recovering. [155] 'Champion' is the old form of 'champain.' [156] 'Diet-bread' was the name given to a sort of sweet seedcake: Vid. Nares' Glossary. [157] Quy. Oh! what cold, famine, &c. [158] For an account of the "bezoar nut" and the Unicorn's horn vid. Sir Thomas Browne's "Vulgar Errors," book iii. cap. xxiii. [159] Vid. Liddell and Scott, s.v. [Greek: hypostasis]. [160] Sc. diaphoretick ([Greek: diaphoraetikos]), causing perspiration. [161] _Rabby Roses_ is no doubt a corruption of _Averroes_, the famous editor of Aristotle, and author of numerous treatises on theological and medical subjects. [162] Sir Thomas Browne (_Vulgar Errors_, I. vii.) quotes from Pierius another strange cure for a scorpion's bite, "to sit upon an ass with one's face towards his tail, for so the pain leaveth the man and passeth into the beast." [163] "Bandogs" (or, more correctly speaking, "band-dogs")--dogs that had to be kept chained on account of their fierceness. [164] (4to): men. [165] 'Carbonardoed'--cut into collops for grilling: a common expression. [166] 'Rochet.'