p. 95 _Rotat omne fatum._ This would be an exceptionally rare use of rotare = rotari, intransitive. But Mrs. Behn, as Dryden tells us in his preface to the translation of Ovid’s _Heroides_ (1680) ‘by many hands’, insisted upon the fact that she knew no Latin. p. 100 _Medicinæ Professores._ This is from the _Troisième Intermède_ of _Le Malade Imaginaire_ which commences:-- Savantissimi doctores, Medicinæ professores, Qui hic assemblati estis; Et vos, altri messiores, Sententiarum facultatis. p. 101 _Vanderbergen._ A well-known empiric of the day. p. 102 _Haly the Moore, and Rabbi Isaac._ Ali Bey (Bobrowski), a Polish scholar, died at Constantinople 1675. He wrote, amongst other treatises, _De Circumcisione_; _De Aegrotorum Visitatione_. These were published at Oxford in 1691. Isaac Levita or Jean Isaac Levi was a celebrated rabbi of the sixteenth century. A professor at Cologne, he practised medicine and astrology. p. 104 _Stetin._ Stettin, the capital of Pomerania, was one of the chief towns of the Hanseatic league. Occupied by Sweden 1637-1713, it was the centre of continual military operations. p. 105 _A Dutch Butter-ferkin, a Kilderkin._ These terms are common abuse as applied to a corpulent person. A firkin (Mid. Dut., vierdekijn) = a small cask for holding liquids or butter; originally half-a-kilderkin. _Dictionary of the Canting Crew_ (1700) has ‘Firkin of foul Stuff; a ... Coarse, Corpulent Woman’. cf. Dryden’s _Mac Flecknoe_ (1682):-- A Tun of Man in thy large Bulk is writ, But sure thou’rt but a Kilderkin of wit. Shadwell was extremely gross in habit and of an unwieldy size. p. 105 _Toping and Napping._ ‘To top’ and ‘to nap’ are slang terms signifying to cheat, especially with dice. cf. R. Head, _Canting Academy_ (1673), ‘What chance of the dye is soonest thrown in topping, shoring, palming, napping.’ Both words occur very frequently, and are amply explained in the Slang Dictionaries. p. 105 _Cater-Tray._ Quatre-trois; a cast at dice. p. 112 _Good morrow._ Wittmore quotes the opening lines of _Volpone_, Act I, i: Good morning to the day; and next my gold! Open the shrine that I may see my saint. Hail the world’s soul and mine! p. 115 _John-a-Nokes._ The fictitious name for the one party in a legal action. The term came to have the same meaning as ‘Jack-hold-my-staff’ = any fool or nincompoop. +Epilogue+ p. 116 _Vizard Mask._ The commonest Restoration synonym for a ‘bona roba’, especially as plying the theatre. * * * * * * * * * Cross-References from Critical Notes: _Sir Patient Fancy_ p. 22 _the Bergere._ cf. _The Feign’d Curtezans_ (Vol. II, p. 346): ’.he hour of the Berjere’. and the note on that passage (p. 441). _Feign’d Curtezans_ note: