See a note on this passage [in Dyce's Glossary]. [313] "A compound wine mixed with several kinds of spice."--Blount's "Glossographia." Kneeling to drink healths was formerly the common practice of drinkers. So in Ben Jonson's "Cynthia's Revels," act ii. sc. 2: "He is a great proficient in all the illiberal sciences; as cheating, drinking, swaggering, whoring, and such like; _never kneels but to drink healths_, nor prays but for a pipe of pudding tobacco." [314] [Foolish.] [315] [Old copy, _A siren like._] [316] _i.e._, Pleases me: a Latin phrase. So Cic. "Ad Att." 13, 21. "Inhibere illud tuum quod valde _arriserat_, vehementer displicet." [317] [Old copy, _rarities, such_.] [318] "Et Curios jam dimidios, nasumque minorem Corvini, et Galbam auriculis nasoque carentem?" --Juvenal, Sat. VIII. edit. Ald. 1535.--_Steevens._ [319] Of course they are disguised, as appears from a preceding scene, although it is not mentioned here.--_Collier._ [320] Of Cnidus. He flourished before the coming of Christ, about 388 years. Petronius Arbiter, in his _Satyricon_, writes: _Eum quidem in cacumine exellissimi montis consenuisse, ut astrorum cœlique motus deprehenderet._ [321] [So the edits., and perhaps rightly, notwithstanding the fact that the word does not occur in the glossaries. At first sight, it would appear to be misprinted for _wicked_.] [322] The groats coined in the reign of Henry VIII. are distinguished by different names; as, the _old Harry groat_, the gun hole groat, the first and second gun-stone groat, &c. The _old Harry groat_ is that which has the head of the king, with a long face and long hair. See Hewit's "Treatise on Moins, Coins, &c.," 1775, p. 69. ACT III., SCENE I. _Enter +Bravo+ and +Boy+._ +Bravo.+ Boy, how sits my rapier? +Boy.+ Close, sir, like a friend that means[323] to stick to you. +Bravo.+ He that will purchase honour and the name of Bravo must, by consequence, be a brave fellow--his title requires it. +Boy.+ But pray, sir, were you never put to the worst in your days? +Bravo.+ Who, I worsted? No, boy; I do manage my rapier with as much readiness and facility as an unicorn does his antler. +Boy.+ Sure, you must needs be very strong then. +Bravo.+ Not so neither; 'tis courage in me. I do it by a sleight, an activity, and by that I can control any man's point whatsoever. +Boy.+ Is it possible? +Bravo.+ I tell thee, boy, I do as much surpass Hercules at my rapier as he did me in club-fighting.[324] [I'll have you] draw[325] a register of those men that have been forced by this weak instrument to lay down their lives. I think it has cut more lives than Atropos. +Boy.+ But pray, sir, were they all your own exploits?