[207] A dance resembling the waltz or polka.
[208] Overturned; literal transference from the Latin.
[209] Nourishing to cattle, productive.
[210] Laden.
[211] Trismegistus.
[212] Porphyry.
[213] An atom compared with.
[214] Possibly the reference is to Lutetia (Paris) rather than Utrecht, which was not yet a university town.
[215] Love-kindling looks.
[216] "The salt-cellar, generally a very large and massive one, stood in the middle of the table; guests of superior rank always sat above it towards the upper part of the table, those of inferior rank below it towards the bottom."—Collins.