p. 172 _tabering._ Beating on; tapping; drumming. This rare word occurs in _Nahum_, II, vii: ‘Her maids shall lead her as with the voice of doves tabering upon their breasts.’ +ACT IV: Scene ii+ p. 180 _Hansel’d._ To handsel is to inaugurate with some ceremony of an auspicious kind, e.g. to begin the New Year by presenting a new comer with a gift. p. 183 _She leapt into the River._ _The Rehearsal_, Act V, burlesques this:-- ‘_The Argument of the Fifth Act_ ... _Cloris_ in despair, drowns herself: and Prince _Pretty-man_, discontentedly, walks by the River side.’ +ACT IV: Scene iv+ p. 188 _foutering._ Fouter (Fr. foutre; Lat. futuere), _verbum obscaenum_. cf. the noun in phrase ‘to care not a fouter’ (footra, footre, foutre), _2 Henry IV_, V, iii. To ‘fouter’ is also used (a vulgarism and a provincialism) in a much mitigated sense = to meddle about aimlessly, to waste time and tongue doing nothing, as of a busybody. p. 189 _Niperkin._ This would seem to be a slang expression, as Grose gives it meaning ‘a small measure’. It was also used for the actual stone jug. cf. D’Urfey, _Pills to Purge Melancholy_ (1719): ‘Quart-pot, Pint-pot, nipperkin.’ _N.E.D._, quoting this passage, explains as ‘a small quantity of wine, ale, or spirits.’ p. 190 _Camphire Posset._ Camphor had a high reputation as an antaphrodisiac. cf. Dryden, _The Spanish Friar_ (1681), Act I, where Gomez says of his wife: ‘I’ll get a physician that shall prescribe her an ounce of camphire every morning, for her breakfast, to abate incontinency’. also Congreve, _The Way of the World_ (1700), IV, xii: ‘You are all camphire and frankincense, all chastity and odour.’ * * * * * * * * * Cross-References from Critical Notes: _The Amorous Prince_ p. 121 _The Jig and Dance._ cf. note (on p. 43), Vol. III, p. 477: _A Jigg (The Town Fop)_. _Town Fop_ note: p. 43 _A Jigg._ There were, in Post-Restoration times, two interpretations of the word Jig. Commonly speaking it was taken to mean exactly what it would now, a simple dance. Nell Gwynne and Moll Davis were noted for the dancing of Jigs. cf. Epilogue to Buckingham’s _The Chances_ (1682):-- The Author dreads the strut and meen Of new prais’d Poets, having often seen Some of his Fellows, who have writ before, When Nel has danc’d her Jig, steal to the Door, Hear the Pit clap, and with conceit of that Swell, and believe themselves the Lord knows what. Thus at the end of Lacy’s _The Old Troop_ (31 July, 1668), we have ‘a dance of two hobby horses in armour, and a Jig.’ Also shortly before the epilogue in Shadwell’s _The Sullen Lovers_ (1668) we read, ‘Enter a Boy in the habit of Pugenello and traverses the stage, takes his chair and sits down, then dances a Jig.’