219 A Master of Arts ought to have known better than to make 'Thule' mono-syllabic, though the general public used to pronounce it so in reference to a once popular book of the late Mr. William Black's.
259 trutinate] = 'balance'. Don Fuco also had apparently enjoyed the advantages of a classical education.
275 'Indod' like 'adad', and many other forms of corrupted evasion of the Third Commandment.
290-1 Tennyson is known to have been no inconsiderable reader, but he can hardly have known this parody—by anticipation—of a famous line in Œnone.
295 trencher-cloaks] cut short? 'Recognizance' is again, if not exactly Shakespearian, not far off. [Return]
309 Here 'blough' is certainly in the sense of 'muffle', and therefore gives a light on the use supra (Author's Apology, l. 5).
322 Why this fling at Skelton's exceedingly pretty verses to Isabel Pennel I do not in the least know.
327 Tripherus] See Juvenal, Sat. xi. 137.
394 Orig. 'phrentezy'. [Return]
418 entrails] Orig. 'intrals'. Not a very common form, but justified by the Low Latin intralia.