[388] [Edits., _importance_.] [389] _Sack_ with _sugar_ was formerly a favourite liquor. Although it is mentioned very often in contemporary writers, it is difficult to collect from any circumstances what the kind of wine then called _sack_ was understood to be. In the Second Part of "Henry IV.," act iv. sc. 3, Falstaff speaks of _sherris sack_; and Dr Johnson supposes the fat knight's admired potation was what we now call _sherry_, which he says is drunk with sugar. This last assertion is contradicted by Mr Steevens, who with more truth asserts that _sherry_ is at this time never drunk with _sugar_, whereas _Rhenish_ frequently is. Dr Warburton seems to be of opinion that the sweet wine still denominated _sack_ was that so often mentioned by Falstaff, and the great fondness of the English nation for _sugar_ rather countenances that idea. Hentzner, p. 88, edit. 1757, speaking of the manners of the English, says, _In potu copiosae immittunt saccarum_--they put a great deal of sugar in their drink; and Moryson, in his "Itinerary," 1617, p. 155, mentioning the Scots, observes, "They drinke pure wines, not with _sugar, as the English_;" again, p. 152, "But gentlemen garrawse onely in wine, with which many mixe _sugar_, which I never observed in any other place or kingdome to be used for that purpose: and because the taste of the English is thus delighted with sweetnesse, the wines in tavernes (for I speak not of merchants or gentlemen's cellars) are commonly mixed at the filling thereof, to make them pleasant." _Sack and sugar_ are mentioned in "Jack Drum's Entertainment," sig. G 3; "The Shoemaker's Holiday," sig. E; "Everie Woman in Her Humour," sig. D 4; and "The Wonderful Yeare," 1603. It appears, however, from the following passage in "The English Housewife," by Gervase Markham, 1631, p. 162, that there were various species of _sack_: "Your best _sacke_ are of Seres in Spaine, your smaller of Galicia and Portugall: your strong _sackes_ are of the islands of the Canaries and of Malligo, and your Muscadine and Malmseys are of many parts of Italy, Greece, and some speciall islands." [But see an elaborate note on sack (vin sec) in Dyce's "Shakespeare Glossary," in _v_.] [390] [Edit., _courses_.] [391] [A room in the inn so called.] [392] The second edition has it, _my master hopes to ride a cockhorse by him before he leaves him_.--_Collier_. [393] _Such is Master Scarborow; such are his company_--edit. 1611. --_Collier_. [394] [A room so called.] [395] [Old copies, _time_.] [396] See note to "The City Nightcap," act iii. [397] Move, or stir. _Bouger_, Fr. [398] I believe an _Epythite_ signifies a beggar--[Greek: epithetaes].-- _Steevens_. [399] [Alluding to a tapestry representing the story of Susanna.] [400] [Edits., _father's old man_.] [401] [Edits., _to_.] [402] [Booty, earnings.] [403] This is a corruption of the Italian _corragio_! courage! a hortatory exclamation. So, in the Epilogue to "Albumazer," 1615--