[127b] Western civet. Paracelsus was said to have endeavoured to extract a perfume from human excrement that might become as fashionable as civet from the cat. It was called zibeta occidentalis, the back being, according to Paracelsus, the western part of the body.
[129] Ep. Fam. vii. 10, to Trebatius, who, as the next sentence in the letter shows, had not gone into England.
[135] A lawyer’s coach-hire.—S.
[136] The College of Physicians.
[140] The bad critics.
[142] A name under which Thomas Vaughan wrote.
[145a] Revelations xxii. 11: “He which is filthy, let him be filthy still;” “phrase of the will,” being Scripture phrase, of either Testament, applied to every occasion, and often in the most unbecoming manner.
[145b] He did not kneel when he received the Sacrament.
[146a] His inward lights.
[146b] Predestination.