FOOTNOTES:
[589] See Nares’s “Glossary,” vol. ii. p. 482; also, Brand’s “Pop. Antiq.,” 1849, vol. iii. p. 311; Henderson’s “Folk-Lore of Northern Counties,” 1879, pp. 168, 169.
[590] Aldis Wright’s “Notes to King Lear,” 1877, p. 179.
[591] Dyce’s “Glossary,” p. 381; cf. the word “Berlué, pur-blinded, made sand-blind,” Cotgrave’s “Fr. and Eng. Dict.”
[592] Vol. ii. p. 765.
[593] Bucknill’s “Medical Knowledge of Shakespeare,” p. 93.
[594] Bucknill’s “Medical Knowledge of Shakespeare,” p. 258.
[595] Cf., too, “Love’s Labour’s Lost” (v. 2):
“A blister on his sweet tongue, with my heart,
That put Armado’s page out of his part.”
[596] Dr. Prior’s “Popular Names of British Plants,” 1870, p. 185.
[597] “The Medical Knowledge of Shakespeare,” 1860, p. 78.
[598] “The Medical Knowledge of Shakespeare,” 1860, p. 65.
[599] See Tylor’s “Primitive Culture,” vol. i. p. 761.
[600] See Nares’s “Glossary,” vol. ii. pp. 660, 661; Dyce’s “Glossary,” p. 322.
[601] Quoted in Singer’s “Shakespeare.”
[602] Cf. “King John” (iii. 1), where Constance gives a catalogue of congenital defects.
[603] “Handbook Index to Shakespeare,” p. 150. See “Notes and Queries” for superstitions connected with drowning, 5th series, vol. ix. pp. 111, 218, 478, 516; vol. x. pp. 38, 276; vol. xi. pp. 119, 278.
[604] Dr. Bucknill’s “Medical Knowledge of Shakespeare,” p. 95.
[605] Singer’s “Shakespeare,” vol. iii. p. 225.
[606] See Singer’s “Shakespeare,” vol. vii. p. 347.
[607] Wright’s “Notes to King Lear” (1877), p. 196.
[608] “Worthies of England” (1662), p. 180.
[609] Singer’s “Shakespeare,” pp. 384, 385; Wright’s “Notes to King Lear,” pp. 154, 155.
[610] “Medical Knowledge of Shakespeare,” p. 121.
[612] Halliwell-Phillipps’s “Handbook Index to Shakespeare” (1866), p. 333.
[613] “A Book of Musical Anecdote,” by F. Crowest (1878), vol. ii. pp. 251, 252.
[614] See Beckett’s “Free and Impartial Enquiry into the Antiquity and Efficacy of Touching for the King’s Evil,” 1722.
[615] See “Notes and Queries,” 1861, 2d series, vol. xi. p. 71; Burns’s “History of Parish Registers,” 1862, pp. 179, 180; Pettigrew’s “Superstitions Connected with Medicine and Surgery,” 1844, pp. 117-154.
[616] Bucknill’s “Medical Knowledge of Shakespeare,” p. 235.
[617] See Pettigrew’s “History of Mummies,” 1834; also Gannal, “Traité d’Embaumement,” 1838.
[618] Rees’s “Encyclopædia,” 1829, vol. xxiv.
[619] Mr. Halliwell-Phillipps, in his “Handbook Index to Shakespeare,” 1866, p. 332, calls it a balsamic liquid.
[620] “Six Old Plays,” ed. Nichols, p. 256, quoted by Mr. Aldis Wright, in his “Notes to King Lear,” 1877, p. 170.
[621] “Shakespeare,” vol. ix. p. 413.
[622] Bucknill’s “Medical Knowledge of Shakespeare,” p. 235.
[623] “Shakespeare,” 1875, vol. iii. p. 284.
[624] See Pettigrew’s “Medical Superstitions,” pp. 13, 14.
[625] Bucknill’s “Medical Knowledge of Shakespeare,” p. 136.
[626] Singer’s “Shakespeare,” vol. i. p. 65.
[627] “Medical Knowledge of Shakespeare,” p. 226.
[628] Quoted in Nares’s “Glossary,” vol. ii. p. 671.
[630] Malone suggests that the hostess may mean “then he was lunatic.”
[631] Bucknill’s “Medical Knowledge of Shakespeare,” p. 150.
[632] See “English Folk-Lore,” p. 156.
[633] See Shortland’s “Traditions and Superstitions of the New-Zealanders,” 1856, p. 131.
[634] Liber Secundus—“De Febribus,” p. 923, ed. 1595.
[635] Nares’s “Glossary,” vol. ii. p. 906.
[636] See 4th series, vol. x. pp. 108, 150, 229, 282, 356.
[637] See Dyce’s “Shakespeare,” vol. vii. p. 239.
[638] “The Medical Knowledge of Shakespeare,” 1860, pp. 1-64.