FOOTNOTES:
[15] I suppose he means a bumper, a cup filled till the wine rises above the top of it. Such a character as Dotterel is hardly made to allude to the pocula coronata of the Romans.—Steevens.
A crowned cup was not an unusual expression for a bumper: thus, in "All Fools," Fortunio says—
"True, and to welcome Dariotto's lateness
He shall (unpledg'd) carouse one crowned cup
To all these ladies' health."
Dotterel might therefore very properly employ words in ordinary use, without supposing him acquainted with "the pocula coronata of the Romans."—Collier.
[16] [Compare vol. iv. p. 68.]
[17] So Pope—
"Who sees pale Mammon pine amidst his store,
Sees but a backward steward for the poor;
This year a reservoir to keep and spare;
The next, a fountain, spouting through his heir,
In lavish streams to quench a country's thirst,
And men and dogs shall drink him till they burst."
—"Moral Essays," Ep. iii. l. 170.