[130] Hawkins’s Life of Dr Johnson, p. 433.
[131] This corncutter was probably the antique statue of the boy picking a thorn out of his foot, and was usual with pedicures. See under the sign “[Old pick my toe].”
[132] Diary of the Rev. John Ward, M.A., 1648-1679. London, 1839.
[133] Diary of Rev. John Ward, M.A., 1648-1679, p. 122.
[134] Memoirs of Charles Macklin, Esq. By J. F. Kirkman. Vol. ii. p. 419.
[135] “A dragon in the manner of a banner, of a certain red silk embroidered with gold; its tongue like a flaming fire must always seem to be moving; its eyes must be made of sapphire, or of some other stone suitable for that purpose.”
[136] Peter Langtoffe’s Chronicle of Robert of Brunne, p. 217.
[137] “The king’s place was between the Dragon and the standard.”
[138] Caxton’s Chronicle at the end of Polychronicon, lib. ult. chap. vi.
[139] Hist., lib. ix. cap. vi.