[308] Faulkner’s Account of Fulham, 1813, p. 359.
[309] Hone’s Ancient Mysteries Described, p. 81.
[310] Magot is in French a quaint, little figure.
[311] For the benefit of those curious in Cambrian heraldry we will give these arms in a note:—“A fly, a maggoty pie, a gammon of bacon and a ——: the fly drinks before his master; a magpie doth prate and chatter, a gammon of bacon is never good till it be hanged, and a —— when it is out never returns to its country, no more will a Welshman; otherwise, his arms are two trees verdant, a beam tressant, a ladder rampant, and Taffe pendant.”
[312] Bagford Bills Harl. MSS., 5931.
[313] A tod is an old word for any entangled mass, but generally applied to flax and ivy.
[314] This comment of “Opinion” might lead to the conclusion that either there was no painted scene at all, or at least that it was badly executed; yet such can scarcely have been the case, for a notice occurs at the end of the masque, purporting that “the scene and ornament was the act of Inigo Jones, Esq., surveyor of His Majesty’s Works.” This play was acted by the gentlemen of the Inns-of-Court, in the presence of the king and queen, at Whitehall, Feb. 3, 1633.
[315] That vultures were exhibited as great curiosities, will be seen from our notice of the [George and Vulture]. See under [Religious Signs].