[346] So in "King Henry IV., Part I."-- "And on thine eye-lids _crown_ the god of sleep." --_Steevens._ [The whole passage seems to be imitated from one in "Venus and Adonis."] [347] So Seneca-- "Curæ leves loquuntur: ingentes stupent." --_Pegge._ [348] Famous for all the arts of fraud and thievery-- "Non fuit Autolyci tam piccata manus." --_Martial._ See Mr Steevens's note on "The Winter's Tale," act iv. sc. 2. [349] [Dressing himself.] [350] Ambergrease was formerly an ingredient used in heightening sauces. So in Milton's "Paradise Regained," book ii. l. 344-- "In pastry built, or from the spit, or boil'd, _Gris amber_ steam'd."--_Steevens._ On this passage Dr Newton observes, that "ambergris, or grey amber, is esteemed the best, and used in perfumes and cordials." A curious lady communicated the following remarks upon this passage to Mr Peck, which we will here transcribe: "_Grey amber_ is the amber our author here speaks of, and melts like butter. It was formerly a main ingredient in every concert for a banquet--viz., to fume the meat with, and that whether boiled, roasted, or baked; laid often on the top of a baked pudding; which last I have eat of at an old courtier's table. And I remember, in our old chronicle there is much complaint of the nobilities being made sick, at Cardinal Wolsey's banquets, with rich scented cates and dishes most costly dressed with _ambergris_. I also recollect I once saw a little book writ by a gentlewoman of Queen Elizabeth's Court, where ambergris is mentioned as the _haut-gout_ of that age." So far this curious lady; and Beaumont and Fletcher, in the "Custom of the Country," act iii. sc. 2-- "Be sure The wines be lusty, high, and full of spirit, And _amber'd_ all." It appears also to have been esteemed a restorative, being mentioned, with other things used for that purpose, in Marston's "Fawne," act ii. sc. 1. See also Surflet's Translation of Laurentius's "Discourse of Old Age, &c.," 1599, p. 194. [351] [Or Sellenger's _Round_. See Chappell's "Popular Music," pp. 69, 70.] [352] See Homer's "Iliad," viii:-- Σειρὴν χρυσείην ἐξ οὐρανόθεν κρεμασάντες, &c. --_Steevens._ [353] [Mr. Collier's addition.] [354] _Leman_ is the old word for a _lover_ of either sex; and in a note to "The Merry Wives of Windsor," act iv. sc. 2, Mr Steevens derives it from _lief_, which is Dutch for beloved. In this opinion he only follows Junius, while others consider it to have its origin in _l'aimant_. "Judge Apius, prickt forth with filthy desire, Thy person as _Lemmon_ doth greatly require." --_Apius and Virginia_, 1575, sign. D 3. In "The Contention between Liberalitie and Prodigalitie," 1602, it is made the subject of a pun: "He shall have a _Lemmon_ to moysten his mouth: A _Lymon_, I meane, no _Lemman_, I trow; Take hede, my faire maides, you take me not so." --Sign. C 4.--_Collier._ [355] [Drab.]