p. 322 _Retierments_. Retreats or Retirings are very fully described in Liancour’s _Le Maistre d’ Armes_, chap. iv. ‘A Man is said to Retire when being within his Adversaries’ reach he goeth out of it either by stepping or jumping backwards from his Adversary upon a Straight Line’.--Hope, _Compleat Fencing Master_ (2nd edition, 1692). p. 322 _St. George’s Guard_. ‘A guard of the broadsword or sabre used in warding off blows directed against the head’.--C. James, _Military Dictionary_ (1802). p. 322 _Flurette_. or Fluret. A fencing foil. Hope, _New Method of Fencing_ (1714), chap, vii says: ‘[The Fencing-Master] ought to ... begin his Scholars with Fleurets’. p. 323 _Ajax and Ulysses contending for Achilles his armour?_ Bella mouet clypeus: deque armis anna feruntur. Non ea Tydides, non audet Oïleos Aiax, Non minor Atrides, non bello maior et aeuo Poscere non alii: soli Telamone creato Läertaque fuit tantae fiducia laudis.--Ovid: _Metamorphoscon_. xii, 621-5. Book xiii commences with a description of the contest of Ajax (Telamonis) and Ulysses for the arms of the dead Achilles. They were awarded to the prince of Ithaca. p. 324 _Clouterlest_. Clumsiest. E. Phillips, _Theatrum Poetarum_, speaks of Spenser’s ‘rough hewn clouterly verses’. cf. _Pamela_, Vol. I, p. 112 (1741), ‘some clouterly ploughboy’. p. 338 _Rosemary_. ‘There’s rosemary, that’s for remembrance’. Hamlet, iv, v. p. 340 _Docity_. Gumption. A favourite word with Mrs. Behn. cf. _The False Count_, ii, 11. _Guill_. ‘I thank heaven I have docity’, and elsewhere, p. 341 _Julio_. Guilio, a silver coin worth 6_d_. It was first struck by Pope Julius II (1503-13), hence its name. p. 346 _The hour of the Berjere_. L’heure du berger ou l’amant trouve celle qu’il aime favorable à ses voeux. cf. La Fontaine, _Contes. La Coupe Enchantée_. ‘Il y fait bon, l’heure du berger sonne.’ It is a favourite expression of Mrs. Behn. cf. _Sir Patient Fancy_, Act i, l. ’.rom Ten to Twelve are the happy hours of the Bergere, those of intire enjoyment.’ Also the charming conclusion of _The Lover s Watch_:-- Damon, my watch is just and new: And all a Lover ought to do, My Cupid faithfully will show. And ev’ry hour he renders there Except _l’heure du Bergère_. p. 352 _Knox, or Cartwright_. The allusion here is to the Scotch reformer and the Puritan divine, whose weighty tomes Tickletext might be supposed to carry with him for propagandist purposes. Fillamour has already rallied him on his Spartan orthodoxy, and anon we find the worthy chaplain hot at the ‘great work of conversion’. It has been ingeniously suggested that a reference is intended to _The Preacher’s Travels_ of John Cartwright of Magdalen, Oxford, a book first published in 1611, and afterwards reprinted. p. 353 _St. James’s of the Incurables_. The church of S. Giacomo and the adjacent Ospedale stand at the corner of the Via S. Giacomo, which leads from the Corso towards the river.