[47] "And there besyden growen trees, that beren fulle faire Apples, and faire of colour to beholde; but whoso brekethe hem, or cuttethe hem in two, he schalle fynde within hem Coles and Cyndres."--_Maundeville's Travels_. [48] _i.e._ Convinced. [49] With which floors were formerly strewed, before the introduction of carpets. [50] Corrupt text. [51] Cheat. [52] Mule. [53] Ovid, _Amor._ i. 8. [54] Portuguese coins, so called from the cross on one side. [55] Equal to sixpence. [56] "This White Devil of Italy sets off a bad cause so speciously, and pleads with such an innocence-resembling boldness, that we seem to see that matchless beauty of her face which inspires such gay confidence into her; and are ready to expect, when she has done her pleadings, that her very judges, her accusers, the grave ambassadors who sit as spectators, and all the court, will rise and make proffer to defend her in spite of the utmost conviction of her guilt; as the shepherds in Don Quixote make proffer to follow the beautiful shepherdess Marcela, 'without reaping any profit out of her manifest resolution made there in their hearing.' "'So sweet and lovely does she make the shame, Which, like a canker in the fragrant rose, Does spot the beauty of her budding name.'" C. Lamb. (_Spec. of Eng. Dram. Poets._) [57] Muddled up. [58] A man famous for his power of digesting all sorts of strange food. [59] Branded. [60] Ingenuously. [61] Rogue. Fr. _Gueux._ [62] A corruption of God's death. [63] Brides formerly walked to church with their hair hanging loose behind. Anne Bullen's was thus dishevelled when she went to the altar with King Henry the Eighth.--_Steevens._ [64] Registered. [65] _i.e._ Supplying borrowers with goods to be debited to them as cash. [66] An allusion to the tribute imposed by Edgar which led to the extirpation of wolves in Britain. [67] Virgil, _Æn._ vii. 312. [68] Anticipate. [69] Syphilis. [70] "Let him have Russian law for all his sins. What's that? A hundred blows on his bare shins." Day's _Parliament of Bees_, 1641. [71] Two mediums for administering poison. [72] A play upon terms of hawking. [73] A magic glass. [74] Squat, _i.e._ the seat or form of a hare. [75] See _Herodotus_, lib. ii. c. 68, on the trochilus. [76] _i.e._ Fine. [77] This was nearly the form in which the election of a Pope was declared to the people. [78] Foolish. [79] Terms of the _manège_. [80] In the year 1598 Edward Squire was convicted of anointing the pummel of the Queen's saddle with poison, for which he was afterwards executed.--_Reed._ [81] Alluding to a woman's longing during pregnancy.