[341] Dr Grey observes from Tackius, that a toad, before she engages with a spider, will fortify herself with some of this plant; and that if she comes off wounded, she cures herself afterwards with it. Mr Steevens says it is a blood-stauncher, and was formerly applied to green wounds. See note on "Romeo and Juliet," act i. sc. 2.
[342] See note [at p. 364 suprâ.]
[343] i.e., Far-fetched. See note to "Gammer Gurton's Needle," [iii. 223.]
[344] Shrewd or witty sayings. See Florio's "Dictionary."
[345] i.e., Proverbs; a referendo, because it is often repeated. See Stevens's "Spanish Dictionary," 1705.
[346] The salt-cellar which used to be set on tables was generally large. Sometimes, however, a smaller sort would be used, and then several were employed, which were set nearer the trenchers, and therefore called trencher-salts, as here.—Pegge.
[347] [Compare p. 302.]
[348] A term of falconry. Latham says, "It is taken for the fowle which is flowne at and slaine at any time."
[349] This is a term of the chase. Gascoigne, in his book of hunting, 1575, p. 242, enumerates it among "other generall termes of the hart and his properties. When he (the hart) is foamy at the mouth, we saye that he is embost." So in "The Shoemakers' Holiday; or, The Gentle Craft," 1610, sig. C 3—
"Besides, the miller's boy told me even now,
He saw him take soile, and he hallowed him,
Affirming him so embost,
That long he could not hold."