[160] Sc. diaphoretick ([Greek: diaphoraetikos]), causing perspiration.
[161] Rabby Roses is no doubt a corruption of Averroes, the famous editor of Aristotle, and author of numerous treatises on theological and medical subjects.
[162] Sir Thomas Browne (Vulgar Errors, I. vii.) quotes from Pierius another strange cure for a scorpion's bite, "to sit upon an ass with one's face towards his tail, for so the pain leaveth the man and passeth into the beast."
[163] "Bandogs" (or, more correctly speaking, "band-dogs")—dogs that had to be kept chained on account of their fierceness.
[164] (4to): men.
[165] 'Carbonardoed'—cut into collops for grilling: a common expression.
[166] 'Rochet.'
"A linen vest, like a surplice, worn by bishops, under their satin robes. The word, it is true, is not obsolete, nor the thing disused, but it is little known."—Nares. ("Lent unto thomas Dowton, the 11 of Aprel 1598, to bye tafitie to macke a Rochet for the beshoppe in earlle good wine, xxiiii s." Henslowe's Diary, ed. Collier, p. 122.)
[167] (4to): by.
[168] The word "portage" occurs in a difficult passage of Pericles, iii. 1,—