N. W.
The Authors Apology.] 9 'Fragour' for 'fragrance' is rare, and of course wrong—all the more so because it is right for 'crash'. But it had somehow got into Italian before it came thence into English.
11 This wonderful Whitingism is, I suppose, to be interpreted 'screws' ('scrues' in original), 'stamps for minting'; obs and sols, oboli and solidi.
14 ermine] = 'parti-coloured'.
20 'Skew', orig. 'scue', is vivid for the great grand-paternal revulsion.
22 'N. W.' is not likely to have been ignorant of W. S.
24-8 Browne, with a curious self-irony, had not long before said the same thing in Religio Medici.
32 blough] = 'hood-wink', 'muffle', as in Blount. Cf. Albino, l. 309.
40 the nose] The nasus aduncus.