[211] [His "History," which is divided into nine books, under the names of the nine Muses.]
[212] i.e., Whispered him. See note to "The Spanish Tragedy," [vi. 10.]
[213] [Peter Martyr's "Decades.">[
[214] A luncheon before dinner. The farmers in Essex still use the word.—Steevens.
So in the "Woman-hater," by Beaumont and Fletcher, act i. sc. 3, Count
Valore, describing Lazarillo, says—
"He is none of these
Same Ordinary Eaters, that'll devour
Three breakfasts, as many dinners, and without any
Prejudice to their Beavers, drinkings, suppers;
But he hath a more courtly kind of hunger.
And doth hunt more after novelty than plenty."
Baret, in his "Alvearic," 1580, explains a boever, a drinking betweene dinner and supper; and a boïer, meate eaten after noone, a collation, a noone meale.
[215] See Note 19 to "The Ordinary."
[216] [In 1576 Ulpian Fulwell published "The First Part of the Eighth Liberal Science, Entituled Ars Adulandi.">[
[217] This word, which occurs in Ben Jonson and some other writers, seems to have the same meaning as our numps. I am ignorant of its etymology.—Steevens. [Compare Nares, 1859, in v.]