=Page 52.=--_William Harrison._ An English clergyman, of whose history we know little except that he was born in London, became rector of Radwinter, Essex, and canon of Windsor, wrote a _Description of Britaine and England_ and other historical books, and probably died in 1592. His detailed account of the state of England and the manners and customs of the people in the 16th century is particularly valuable. =Page 54.=--_Strewn with rushes._ There are many allusions to this in Shakespeare. In _The Taming of the Shrew_ (iv. 1. 48), when Petruchio is coming home, Grumio asks: "Is supper ready, the house trimmed, rushes strewed, cobwebs swept?" Compare _Romeo and Juliet_, i. 4. 36: "Tickle the senseless rushes with their heels" (that is, in dancing); _Cymbeline_, ii. 2. 13:-- "Our Tarquin thus Did softly press the rushes," etc. =Page 55.=--_Thomas Coryat_, born in 1577 and educated at Oxford, was celebrated for his pedestrian journeys on the Continent of Europe. In 1608 he travelled through France, Germany, and Italy, "walking 1975 miles, more than half of which were accomplished in one pair of shoes, which were only once mended, and on his return were hung up in the Church of Odcombe." Of this tour he wrote an account entitled "Coryat's Crudities hastily gobled up in five months' Travels in France," etc. He died at Surat in 1617, after explorations in Greece, Egypt, and India. =Page 56.=--_Bullein._ William Bullein, or Bulleyn, born about 1500, was a learned physician and botanist. His _Government of Health_ was very popular in its day. He wrote several other books of medicine. He died in 1576. =Page 57.=--_His Anatomy of Melancholy._ Of this famous work, written by Robert Burton (1577-1640), Dr. Johnson said that it was "the only book that ever took me out of bed two hours sooner than I wished to rise." =Page 60.=--_Francis Seager._ Of his personal history, as of that of _Hugh Rhodes_, nothing of importance is known. =Page 61.=--_He is then to make low curtsy._ This form of obeisance was used by both sexes in Shakespeare's day. Cf. _2 Henry IV._ ii. 1. 135: "if a man will make courtesy and say nothing, he is virtuous"; and the epilogue to the same play: "First my fear, then my courtesy, last my speech." _Curtsy_ is a modern spelling of the word in this sense. =Page 62.=--_Caraways._ The word occurs once in Shakespeare (_2 Henry IV._ v. 3. 3: "a dish of caraways"), where it probably has the same meaning as here; but some have thought that the reference is to a variety of apple. =Page 63.=--_Treatably._ Tractably, smoothly. Cf. Marston, _What You Will_, ii. 1: "Not too fast; say [recite] treatably." _Much forder._ We find _d_ and _th_ used interchangeably in many words in old writers; as _fadom_ and _fathom_, _murder_ and _murther_, etc. =Page 64.=--_To charge thee with than._ We find _than_ for _then_ in Shakespeare, _Lucrece_, 1440:--