"Keeper. Ay, but thou talk'st as if thou wert a king.
K. Henry. Why, so I am in mind; and that's enough."
C. Mansfield Ingleby.
Birmingham.
Claret (Vol. vii., p. 237.).—The word claret seems to me to be the same as the French word clairet, both adjective and substantive; as a substantive it means a low and cheap sort of claret, sold in France, and drawn from the barrel like beer in England; as an adjective it is a diminutive of clair, and implies that the wine is transparent.
John Lammens.
Manchester.
Suicide at Marseilles (Vol. vii., pp. 180. 316.).—The original authority for the custom at Marseilles, of keeping poison at the public expense for the accommodation of all who could give the senate satisfactory reasons for committing suicide, is Valerius Maximus, lib. ii. cap. vi. § 7.
Zeus.
Etymology of Slang (Vol. vii., p. 331.).—