[290:2] Rowland: Knave of Hearts (1612). Ray: Proverbs. Tom Brown: Amusement, viii.
[290:3] As the political parties of Whig and Tory are pointed out by the high and low heels of the Lilliputians (Framecksan and Hamecksan), those of Papist and Protestant are designated under the Big-endians and Small-endians.
[291:1] In Sebastian Munster's "Cosmography" there is a cut of a ship to which a whale was coming too close for her safety, and of the sailors throwing a tub to the whale, evidently to play with. This practice is also mentioned in an old prose translation of the "Ship of Fools."—Sir James Mackintosh: Appendix to the Life of Sir Thomas More.
[291:2] See Mathew Henry, page [283].
[291:3] Till they be bobbed on the tails after the manner of sparrows.—Rabelais: book ii. chap. xiv.
[291:4] Ray: Proverbs. Mallet: Tyburn.
[292:1] See Heywood, page [16].
[292:2] See Heywood, page [13].
[292:3] You lie—under a mistake.—Shelley: Magico Prodigioso, scene 1 (a translation of Calderon).
[292:4] The will for deed I doe accept.—Du Bartas: Divine Weeks and Works, third day, week ii. part 2.