too many dishes should cast into a surfet, I will now take away; yet so that, if I perceiue you relish this well, the rest shall be (in time) prepared for you. _Fare-well._ NOTES P. 2. _The Rubie._--This is the famous and characteristic note of Euphuism--the accumulation of similes from natural history, or what was taken for natural history. It can hardly be necessary to take note of each of these; still less of the abundant classical allusions which any one acquainted with the classics will understand at once, and which could only be explained to others by loading these notes with lumps of Lemprière. Nor will any one find much difficulty in the language if he remembers that 'then' and 'than,' 'there' and 'their,' 'wayed' and 'weighed,' were written, or at least printed, in those days according to the liberal standard of the taste and fancy of the speller. In case of any difficulty, reading the word aloud will generally solve it. In a few instances, however, it may be well to gloss a little more specially. _M._--I am not sure what this abbreviates. 'Master,' for which it is the commonest sign, would do. _Oftscome_ = 'off-scum,' 'off-scouring.' P. 3. _Find faulte_ is rather a loss: it is better than 'fault-finder.' _Closset._--This refers to the famous copy of Homer called [Greek: ê ek tou narthêkos], which Alexander carried about with him in a sumptuous _narthex_--a portable medicine-case. _Bourde_ = 'jest.' P. 5. _Parson_ and 'person,' interchangeably. _Cirpo_, rather _scirpo_. P. 6. _Denocated._--A mistake for either 'denotated' or 'devocated,' both possible and easily intelligible words. _Werish_ = 'wersh,' 'weak,' 'sickly.' P. 7. _Predictam_ of course should be _praeditam_. _Presisnes_, for 'preciseness,' is a good example of the quaint tricks played by phonetics. P. 8. _Gale_ = gall = (in next line) _fel_. _Player._--Before his 'conversion' Gosson had himself had much to do with the theatre. P. 11. _Plotinus._--Either Lodge or his printer has made nonsense of this. For 'Plotinus' read 'Plautus.' P. 12. _Saphier._--Evident misprint for 'Sapphic.' P. 16. The quotation has been set right in some obvious matters, though not materially altered. In the second line of the English version 'with' should no doubt be 'which,' 'wh.' being the abbreviation for both. P. 17. Tyrtæus may perhaps be hid to some under his disguise of _Tirtheus_, which on p. 20 becomes _Tirthetus_. P. 18. _Quinque_ for _quique_ is very funny. P. 19. _Stare_ = 'star,' 'mole.' P. 20. _Acuate_ = 'sharpened,' 'spurred on.' P. 22. It is noteworthy that Lodge is much more eloquent and much more urgent in defence of music than of poetry, and indeed the _melomania_ of the Elizabethans is well known. P. 25. _Buggs_ = 'bugbears.' _Pavions_ = 'pavone' or 'pavine,' the well-known stately 'peacock-dance' of the time. _Dump._--Not merely as now used, 'a fit of melancholy,' but 'a melancholy tune,' and even a dance. P. 33.