[15] Compare our "Billingsgate."
[16] We sometimes speak of a seedy coat.
[17] The answers to the above riddles are, thistledown, sleep, night and day, shade.
[18] "Gugga" seems to have corresponded with our "Nigger."
[19] About three and nine pence.
[20] Roman mirrors made of silver.
[21] Scurra originally meant a neighbour, then a gossip, then a pleasant fellow, and finally a jocose, and in those rude times a scurrilous man.
[22] There is a story of Caligula having had an actor burnt alive for making an offensive pun in an Atellane play. Sometimes nicknames were thus made. Placidus was Acidus, Labienus, Rabienus; Claudius Tiberius Nero was Caldius Biberius Mero.
[23] I have been obliged to omit some of the pungent indelicacy of the original. The Pope was the sacrificing priest.
[24] We meet with such words as verrucosus, sanna, a grimace, and stloppus, the sound made by striking the inflated cheeks.