Vassall Road, Brixton, Feb. 21. 1851.
Footnote 4:[(return)]
This deduction is not warranted by the Vocab. della Crusca, or any other Ital. Dic. to which I have had the opportunity of reference: and Somner and Lye are quite distinct on the A.-Sax. words, Wermod and Eisell.
Garden of Health, 4to. London, 1633. The portions within the brackets were omitted by Mr. Singer.
Via Recta ad Vitam Longam, by Thomas Venner, M.D. 4to. London, 1660.
Med. Dict.
A description of the rivers Yssel will be found in Dict. Géograph. de la Martinière, v. ix. fo. 1739.
As the verb "to drink" was not limited to the act of bibition, but for Mr. Hickson's decision against drinking up the "sea-serpent," it might yet become a question whether Hamlet's eisell had not been a misprint for eosol (asinus).
Merchant of Venice, Introduction.