[152] A hound's chaps were called "flews".
[153] 'Sparabiles,' nails used by shoemakers. Nares quotes Herrick:
Cob clouts his shoes, and, as the story tells,
His thumb-nailes par'd afford him sperrables.'
The word is of uncertain derivation.
[154] 4to. recovering.
[155] 'Champion' is the old form of 'champain.'
[156] 'Diet-bread' was the name given to a sort of sweet seedcake: Vid. Nares' Glossary.
[157] Quy. Oh! what cold, famine, &c.
[158] For an account of the "bezoar nut" and the Unicorn's horn vid. Sir Thomas Browne's "Vulgar Errors," book iii. cap. xxiii.
[159] Vid. Liddell and Scott, s.v. [Greek: hypostasis].