=1. 1. 114, 5 Hum, Meath, and Obarni.= Hum is defined B. E. _Dict. Cant. Crew, Hum_ or _Humming Liquor_, Double Ale, Stout, Pharoah. It is mentioned in Fletcher’s _Wild Goose Chase_ 2. 3 and Heywood’s _Drunkard_. p. 48. Meath or mead is still made in England. It was a favorite drink in the Middle Ages, and consisted of a mixture of honey and water with the addition of a ferment. Harrison, _Description of England_, ed. Furnivall, 1. 161, thus describes it: ‘There is a kind of swish swash made also in Essex, and diuerse other places, with honicombs and water, which the [homelie] countrie wiues, putting some pepper and a little other spice among, call mead, verie good in mine opinion for such as loue to be loose bodied [at large, or a little eased of the cough,] otherwise it differeth so much from the true metheglin, as chalke from cheese.’ Obarni was long a crux for the editors and dictionaries. Gifford (_Wks._ 7. 226) supplied a part of the quotation from _Pimlyco or Runne Red-Cap_, 1609, completed by James Platt, Jun. (_N. & Q._ 9th Ser. 3. 306). in which ‘Mead Obarne and Mead Cherunk’ are mentioned as drinks ----that whet the spites Of Russes and cold Muscovites. Mr. Platt first instanced the existing Russian word _obarni_ or _obvarnyi_ (see Gloss.), meaning ‘boiling, scalding,’ and C. C. B. (_N. & Q._ 9. 3. 413) supplied a quotation from the account of the voyage of Sir Jerome Bowes in 1583 (Harris’s _Travels_ 1. 535), in which ‘Sodden Mead’ appears among the items of diet supplied by the Emperor to the English Ambassador. The identification was completed with a quotation given by the _Stanford Dict._: ‘1598 Hakluyt _Voy._ 1. 461 One veather of sodden mead called _Obarni_.’ =1. 1. 119 your rope of sand.= This occupation is mentioned again in 5. 2. 6. =1. 1. 126 Tissue gownes.= Howes, p. 869. tells us that John Tuce, ‘dweling neere Shorditch Church’, first attained perfection in the manufacture of cloth of tissue. =1. 1. 127 Garters and roses.= Howes, p. 1039, says that ‘at this day (1631) men of meane rancke weare Garters, and shooe Roses, of more than fiue pound price.’ Massinger, in the _City Madam_, _Wks._, p. 334, speaks of ‘roses worth a family.’ Cf. also John Taylor’s _Works_, 1630 (quoted in _Hist. Brit. Cost_.): Weare a farm in shoe-strings edged with gold And spangled garters worth a copyhold.