[80.] Sir T. Browne treats of chiromancy, or the art of telling fortunes by means of lines in the hands, in his “Vulgar Errors,” lib. v. cap. 23.
[81.] Gypsies.
[82.] S. Wilkin says that here this word means niggardly.
[83.] In the dialogue, “judicium vocalium,” the vowels are the judges, and Σ complains that T has deprived him of many letters that ought to begin with Σ.
[84.] If Jovis or Jupitris.
[85.] The celebrated Roman grammarian. A proverbial phrase for the violation of grammar was “Breaking Priscian’s head.”
[86.] Livy says, Actius Nevius cut a whetstone through with a razor.
[87.] A kind of lizard that was supposed to kill all it looked at—
“Whose baneful eye
Wounds at a glance, so that the soundest dye.”