[455] A low part of Clerkenwell.
[456] Hoxton,—in Elizabethan times a favourite resort for pleasure-seekers. See particularly the opening of The Passionate Morrice (pt. ii. of Tell-Trothes New Yeares Gift), 1593.
[457] There is an allusion to a scandalous story told of Diogenes the Cynic. See Plutarch’s De Stoicorum Repugnantiis, cap. xxi., and Diogenes Laertius’ Philosophorum Vitæ, vi. 2, 46.
[458] So I understand the “Velvet-cap’t” of the old eds.
[459] Old eds. “S. Homers.”
[460] So Hall in Virgidem., iv. 4:—
“Virginius vow’d to keep his maidenhead,
And eats chaste lettuce and drinks poppy head,
And smells on camphire fasting.”
[461] See vol. i. p. 239.
[462] Hall has this word in Virgidem., iv. 1.
[463] The name of a disease (Gr. σῦκον, Lat. ficus).—Aretine was styled Il divino.
[464] Juvenal, Sat. vi. 130.