FOOTNOTES:
[493] Alvaro the Italian is also mentioned, but he does not enter till some time afterwards.
[494] By Master Strangers he means the "other merchants," as he knows Delion and Vandal.
[495] According to Heywood's, "If you know not me, you know nobody," Part II., Queen Elizabeth, when she christened the Royal Exchange, after it had been built by Sir T. Gresham, changed its name from the Burse, which it had been previously called—
"Proclaim through every high street of this city,
This place be no longer called a Burse,
But since the building's stately, fair, and strange,
Be it for ever call'd the Royal Exchange."
Sig. H 2. The terms were afterwards often used indifferently, and Pisaro, just before, calls the Exchange the Burse.
[496] Away is omitted in the two last impressions.
[497] [A quibble on antique and antic.]
[498] This word seems to have puzzled our dictionary-makers very needlessly. Mr Todd quotes Skinner, who derives it from top and turf: the etymology is very simple, and will be acknowledged the instant it is stated: topsy-turvy is only an abbreviation of topside t'other way, or the upper end of anything turned downwards—i.e., bottom upwards. Archdeacon Nares got as far as top side, but turvy, he acknowledged, set his ingenuity at defiance.
[499] A proverbial expression. Mowing is a corruption of mouthing.