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[77] A proverbial expression: γαστὴρ ὠτὰς οὐκ ἔχει.
[78] A familiar form of address.
[79] Slipper.
[80] The stick which held the gunner’s match.
[81] “Case of rapiers”—pair of rapiers.
[82] All the editions give “Bessicler’s;” but this is evidently a misprint. Rosicleer was the brother of the Knight of the Sun, and he figures prominently in the group of romances published under the Mirror of Knighthood (7 pts., 1583-1601). He had an excellent suit of armour, which proved very serviceable in his combats with giants.
[83] Dilke, in 1814, says that featherbeds were still used to protect the men from the fire of the enemy. As to the use of cables I refer the reader to Sir William Monson’s Naval Tracts (Collection of Voyages and Travels, 1704, iii. 358), where in the directions “How to preserve the men in fighting” it is stated:—“I prefer the coiling of cables on the deck, and keeping part of the men within them...; for the soldiers are in and out speedily upon all sudden occasions to succour any part of the ship, or to enter an enemy, without trouble to the sailors in handling their sails or to the gunners in playing their ordnance.”
[84] A twisted band worn round the hat. In Every Man out of his Humour (1599), the “cable-hatband” is mentioned as a novelty of the latest fashion:—“I had on a gold cable hat-band then new come up”
[85] Ruff, falling-band.