Line 70. "Denarii dicti, quod denos æris valebant; quinarii, quod quinos" (Varro). Line 93. _Janus_ is frequently, though not invariably, represented in mythology as guardian of the entrance to heaven; in which capacity he holds in his right hand a staff, and in his left a key, symbolical of his office (Ovid, _Fast._ i. 125). The names of Jupiter and Janus were usually coupled in prayer, as the divinities whose aid it was necessary to invoke at the beginning of any undertaking. Jupiter gave by augury the requisite sanction; but it was the part of Janus to confer a blessing at the outset. Line 111. _Hippocrise._--A beverage composed of wine, with spices and sugar, strained through a cloth; said to have been named from Hippocrates' sleeve, the term given by apothecaries to a strainer (Halliwell). Line 111. _Muskadine._--A well-known rich wine. "And I will have also wyne de Ryne With new maid clarye, that is good and fyne, Muscadell, terantyne, and bastard, With Ypocras and Pyment comyng afterwarde." (_MS. Rawl._ C. 86.) Though _muscadell_ is the usual form (for instances see Furnivall, _The Babees Book_, p. 205), the spelling _muscadine_ occurs in Beaumont and Fletcher's _Loyal Subject_, iii. 4. Line 112. _The Pierides pies._--The reference is not to the Muses themselves (sometimes called Pierides from Pieria, near Olympus), but to the nine daughters of Pierus, who for attempting to rival the Muses were changed into birds of the magpie kind. For a full account of the transformation see Ovid, _Met._ v. 670, etc. There is a play here on the double meaning of _pie_, namely a bird (Latin pica), and an article of food. II. Line 23.--_Keele_, to cool, from O. E. cêlan, M. E. kelen. See _Love's Labour's Lost_, v. 2, 930--"While greasy Joan doth keel the pot." Usually, however, the verb bore the derived sense of "to keep from boiling over by stirring round." _A Tour to the Caves_, 1781, gives--"_Keel_, to keep the pot from boiling over." This is evidently the meaning which should be adopted here. III. Line 13. _It is bootles_, etc.--Puns on the different meanings of the word _boot_ are very common in Elizabethan writers, and the relevant use of the one frequently entails the irrelevant introduction of the other. See, for example, _Two Gentlemen of Verona_, i. 1, 27, etc.: "_Pro._ Over the boots? Nay, give me not the boots. _Val._ No, I will not, for it boots thee not." And _Every Man in his Humour_, i. 3, 30, etc.: "_Brai._ Why, you may ha' my master's gelding, to save your longing, sir. _Step._ But I ha' no boots, that's the spite on't. _Brai._ Why, a fine wisp of hay roll'd hard, Master Stephen. _Step._ No, faith, it's no boot to follow him now." "Give me not the boots" = "do not make a laughing-stock of me."