[521] Dilke has an extraordinary note:—“In Cotgrave’s French Dictionary, Bourrachon is explained ‘a tippler, quaffer, toss-pot, whip-can,’ &c. Burrage may therefore, I conceive, mean beverage.” In that detestable concoction, claret-cup, the herb borage is still used; and Gerard, in his Herbal (1597) tells us that “the leaves and flowers of borage put into wine maketh men and women glad and merry, and driveth away all sadness, dulness, and melancholy” (p. 654).
[522] Cf. Every Man out of his Humour, iii. 2:—“You sky-staring coxcombs you, you fat-brains, out upon you! You are good for nothing but to sweat night-caps and make rug-gowns dear.” Gifford remarks:—“This was the usual dress of mathematicians, astrologers, &c., when engaged in their sublime speculations.”
[523] Ed. 2. “that.”
[524] Ed. 1. “disist.”
[525] Old eds. “made.”
[526] Ed. 2. “ingenuous.” See [note 1], p. 109.
[527] Old eds. “Qua.”
[528] Not marked in old eds.
[529] Old eds. “Adri.”
[530] Old eds. “Adri.”