[Greek: Apas de trachus hostis han neon kratae.]
—H.W.]
[Footnote 23: A rustic euphemism for the American variety of the Mephitis.—H.W.]
[Footnote 24: Dictionary of Obsolete and Provincial English.]
[Footnote 25: Cited in Collier. (I give my authority where I do not quote from the original book.)]
[Footnote 26: The word occurs in a letter of Mary Boleyn, in Golding, and
Warner. Milton also was fond of the word.]
[Footnote 27: Though I find Worcëster in the Mirror for Magistrates.]
[Footnote 28: This was written twenty years ago, and now (1890) I cannot open an English journal without coming upon an Americanism.]
[Footnote 29: The Rev. A.L. Mayhew of Wadham College, Oxford, has convinced me that I was astray in this.]
[Footnote 30: Dame, in English, is a decayed gentlewoman of the same family.]