=5. 8. 81 Figgum.= ‘In some of our old dictionaries, _fid_ is explained to caulk with oakum: figgum, or fig’em, may therefore be a vulgar derivative from this term, and signify the lighted flax or tow with which jugglers stuff their mouths when they prepare to amuse the rustics by breathing out smoke and flames: --a nut-shell With tow, and touch-wood in it, to spite fire (5. 3. 4. 5).’ --G. =5. 8. 86, 7 to such a foole, He makes himselfe.= For the omission of the relative adverb cf. 1. 3. 34, 35. =5. 8. 89 To come to dinner, in mee the sinner.= The conception of this couplet and the lines which Fitzdottrel speaks below was later elaborated in Cocklorrel’s song in the _Gipsies Metamorphosed_. Pluto in Dekker’s _If this be not a good Play_, _Wks._ 3. 268, says that every devil should have ‘a brace of whores to his breakfast.’ Such ideas seem to be descended from the mediæval allegories of men like Raoul de Houdanc, Ruteboeuf, etc. =5. 8. 91, 2 Are you phrenticke, Sir, Or what graue dotage moues you.= ‘Dotage, fatuity, or folly, is a common name to all the following species, as some will have it.... _Phrenitis_, which the Greeks derive from the word φρήν, is a disease of the mind, with a continual madness or dotage, which hath an acute fever annexed, or else an inflammation of the brain, or the membranes or kells of it, with an acute fever, which causeth madness and dotage.’--Burton, _Anat. of Mel._, ed. Shilleto, 1. 159-60. =5. 8. 112 f. Οὶ μοὶ κακοδαίμων=, etc. See variants. ‘This Greek is from the Plutus of Aristophanes, Act 4, Sc. 3.’--W. Accordingly to Blaydes’s edition, 1886, 11. 850-2. He reads Οἴμοι κακοδαίμων, etc. (Ah! me miserable, and thrice miserable, and four times, and five times, and twelve times, and ten thousand times.) =5. 8. 116 Quebrémos=, etc. Let’s break his eye in jest. =5. 8. 118 Di grátia=, etc. If you please, sir, if you have money, give me some of it. =5. 8. 119 f. Ouy, Ouy Monsieur=, etc. Yes, yes, sir, a poor devil! a poor little devil! =5. 8. 121 by his seuerall languages.= Cf. Marston, _Malcontent_, _Wks._ 1. 212: ‘_Mal._ Phew! the devil: let him possess thee; he’ll teach thee to speak all languages most readily and strangely.’ =5. 8. 132 Such an infernall stincke=, etc. Dr. Henry More says that the devil’s ‘leaving an ill smell behind him seems to imply the reality of the business’, and that it is due to ‘those adscititious particles he held together in his visible vehicle being loosened at his vanishing’ (see Lowell, _Lit. Essays_ 2. 347).