[p. 120] Crab-Wine. An inferior tipple brewed from sour apples.
[p. 122] Tantalus better than ever Ovid described him.
Quaerit aquas in aquis, et poma fugacia captat
Tantalus: hoc illi garrula lingua dedit.
Amorum, ii, 11, 43-4.
Tibi, Tantale, nullae
Deprenduntur aquae; quaeque imminet effugit arbos.
Met, iv, 457-8.
[p. 126] I ... must be this very Mountebank expected. One may remember Rochester’s unpenetrated masquerade as Alexander Bendo, high above ‘the bastard race of quacks and cheats,’ and Grammont’s account of all the courtiers and maids of honour flocking for lotions and potions of perpetual youth to the new empiric’s lodgings ‘in Tower-Street, next door to the sign of the Black Swan, at a Goldsmith’s house.’ In the Works of the Earls of Rochester, Roscommon and Dorset (2. vols. 1756), there is a rough cut of Rochester as a charlatan delivering a speech to the assembled crowd. On the platform also stands his attendant, a figure dressed in the diamonded motley of Harlequin.
[p. 126.] in querpo. A Spanish phrase, en cuerpo = without a cloak; in an undress or disguise.