[611] See p. [73].

[612] Halliwell-Phillipps’s “Handbook Index to Shakespeare” (1866), p. 333.

[613] “A Book of Musical Anecdote,” by F. Crowest (1878), vol. ii. pp. 251, 252.

[614] See Beckett’s “Free and Impartial Enquiry into the Antiquity and Efficacy of Touching for the King’s Evil,” 1722.

[615] See “Notes and Queries,” 1861, 2d series, vol. xi. p. 71; Burns’s “History of Parish Registers,” 1862, pp. 179, 180; Pettigrew’s “Superstitions Connected with Medicine and Surgery,” 1844, pp. 117-154.

[616] Bucknill’s “Medical Knowledge of Shakespeare,” p. 235.

[617] See Pettigrew’s “History of Mummies,” 1834; also Gannal, “Traité d’Embaumement,” 1838.

[618] Rees’s “Encyclopædia,” 1829, vol. xxiv.

[619] Mr. Halliwell-Phillipps, in his “Handbook Index to Shakespeare,” 1866, p. 332, calls it a balsamic liquid.

[620] “Six Old Plays,” ed. Nichols, p. 256, quoted by Mr. Aldis Wright, in his “Notes to King Lear,” 1877, p. 170.