"Hogsdone, Islington, and Totnam Court,
For cakes and cream had then no small resort."
Wither's Britain's Remembrancer, 1628.
[56] Jest; taunt.
[57] Rough-coated.
[58] Coranto, a quick and lively dance.
[59] The saraband was a slow and stately dance.
[60] A farcical personage of the Italian stage, in the character of a military braggart. Tiberio Fiurelli, the creator of this part, was acting in Wycherley's time at the Italian Theatre in Paris. Angel and Nokes were eminent comic actors of the day, and this scene must have been sufficiently diverting if, as Genest supposes, the part of Monsieur de Paris was actually played by Nokes, and that of Don Diego by Angel.
[61] Gavanho in former editions, but there is no such word in the Spanish language. I venture to substitute gabacho, a term of contempt applied to a Frenchman.
[62] The golilla was a collar of pasteboard, covered with white muslin, starched and plaited. It was at this time generally worn in Spain, but later only by lawyers.