[118] Burton observes (Anatomy of Melancholy, i. 2): ‘Drunken women most part bring forth children like unto themselves.’
[119] The author of the History of Signboards is wrong in saying (p. 52) that James married a daughter of Christian IV. James married a daughter of Frederic II. and a sister of Christian IV. Frederick was dead before the marriage of James.
[120] Sir John Harrington, Nugæ Antiquæ, i. 348. It is cited, more or less, in Lingard, Hist. Eng.; Nichols’ Progresses; Aubrey, Hist. Eng.; Samuelson, Hist. Drink; Sandys’ Chrismastide, &c.
[121] Charles Lamb’s Works, On the Poetical Works of George Wither.
[122] Hazlitt, Lectures on the English Poets.
[123] Cited in Sir H. Ellis’s Brand, Pop. Antiq., and in Nares’ Glossary.
[124] George Herbert: Country Parson.
[125] Virgidemiarum, ii. 3.
[126] Nabal and Abigail.
[127] Blackstone: Comm. on the Laws of England, iv. 4.