p. 317 _I may chance to turn her_. Mr. Tickletext was much of the opinion of the celebrated casuist Bauny, who, in his _Theologia Moralis_, tractatus iv, _De Poenitentia_, quaestio 14, writes: ‘Licitum est cuilibet lupanar ingredi ad odium peccati ingerendum meretricibus, etsi metus sit, et vero etiam verisimilitudo non parva se peccaturum eo quod malo suo saepe sit expertus, blandis se muliercularum sermonibus flecci solitum ad libidinem.’ p. 319 _Amorous Twire_. Twire--a sly, saucy glance; a leer. cf. Etheridge’s _The Man of Mode_ (1676), Act iii, III, _Harriet_. ‘I abominate ... the affected smiles, the silly By-words, and amorous Tweers in passing.’ The verb ‘to twire’ occurs in Shakespeare’s _Sonnets_, xxviii, 12, and frequently elsewhere. p. 320 _Hogan-Mogan_. A popular corruption, or rather perversion, of the Dutch _Hoogmogend-heiden_, ‘High Mightinesses’, the title of the States-General. In a transferred manner it is used as a humorous or Contemptuous adjective of those affecting grandeur and show; ‘high and mighty.’ The phrase is common. Needham, _Mercurius Pragmaticus_, No. 7 (1648), speaks of the ‘Hogan Mogan States of Westminster’. Tom Brown (1704), _Works_ (1760), Vol. IV, lashes ‘hogan-mogan generals’. p. 330 _Pusilage_. French _pucelage_; virginity; maidenhead. 1724 reading ’.upilage’ misses the whole point and comes near making nonsense of the passage. cf. Otway’s _The Poets Complaint of his Muse_ (4to, 1680), v-vi: No pair so happy as my Muse and I. Ne’er was young lover half so fond, When first his pusilage he lost; Or could of half my pleasure boast. p. 322 _Back-Sword_. A sword with a cutting edge; or single-stick (with a basket hilt). p. 322 _Parades_. ‘The lessons defensive are commonly called the parades’.--Sir W. Hope’s _Compleat Fencing Master_ (2nd edition, 1692). p. 322 _Degagements_. André Wernesson, Sieur de Liancour, in chap. v of _Le Maistre d’ Armes_ (1686), treats ‘des Dégagements’ in some detail. Hope defines ‘Caveating or Dis-engaging’ as ‘the slipping of your Adversaries’ sword when it is going to _bind_ or secure yours’. p. 322 _Advancements_. Advancings. ‘A man is said to _Approach_ or _Advance_ when being out of his adversaries’ reach or at a pretty distance from him he cometh nearer to him’.--Hope, _Compleat Fencing Master_. p. 322 _Eloynements_. To elonge ‘is to Streatch forward one’s right Arm and Legg and to keep a close left Foot. This a Man doth when he giveth a Thrust, and when he doth it he is said to make an _Elogne_’ (Eloynements).--Hope, _New Method of Fencing_, chap. iv, XI (2nd edition, 1714), deals in detail with ‘Elonging, or making an Elonge’.