Full information about _Grobianisme_ may be found in Chapter
VII. of Mr. Herford's excellent _Literary Relations of England
and Germany in the 16th Century_. Cambridge: 1886.
P. 215.
_Kelly_ succeeded Dee as an alchemist.
P. 216.
For the _Ship of Fooles_, as Alexander Barclay Englished
Sebastian Brant's _Narrenschiff_, see Mr. Herford _op. cit._
_Like Biasse_ = 'crookedly'?
P. 217.
_Tarleton_, etc.,--actors.
P. 221.
_Bootes._--For the proper and original meaning of 'boot' see
the opening chapter of _Old Mortality_.
P. 223.
_Voyder._--The tray for sweeping off crumbs, fragments, etc.,
from the table.
P. 230.
_Vaunt-currers_ = 'avant-couriers.'
P. 231.
_Platoes cocke._--It was rather Diogenes's--his unfeeling jest
on the 'unfeathered, two-legged animal' definition of Man.
P. 232.
_Babiownes_ = 'baboon.'
_Mandilions._--A kind of monkey.
P. 234.
_Strawling_ = 'straddling.'
P. 242.
The _Duke_, of course Humfrye.
P. 244.
_Cipers_ = 'cyprus,' crape.
P. 246.
_Horse._--Banks's Morocco, frequent in Elizabethan mouths.
P. 273.
_Perinado_, guessed to = "parasite" "dinner-hunter." _Inghle_
= "crony."
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