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219. To wash Bootes. CI. Shakespeare, I Henry IV, II, i, 74: "Chamber- 

 lain. What, the commonwealth their boots? will she hold out water in foul way? 

 Gadshill. She will, she will; justice hath liquored her." 



235. an underlaid cobbler. Underlay=tomend thesole ofashoe. 



241. Jones Al^s new. A proverb. A ballad entitled "Jones (i.e. Joan's) 

 ale is newe" is entered in the Stationers' Register, 16 October, 1594. Copies 

 are preserved among the Douce Ballads in the Bodleian Library (I, fol. 99b and 

 I, fol. 105b) See also Ebsworth's note in Roxburghe Ballads, VII, 164. 



256. fin'd for Alderman, i. e. paid composition as the price of escaping the 

 duties of office, cf. Pepys's Diary for Dec. 1, 1663: "Mr. Crow hath fined for 

 Alderman." 



257. ozU of nicke and froth. "Nick" is the false bottom of a beer-can. The 

 phrase "nick and froth" was applied to a means of cheating in ale houses. The 

 contents of the tankard was diminished from the bottom by the nick and from the 

 top by an undue amount of froth. Between the two the hapless drinker had 

 indeed small beer. See New English Dictionary under "nick'' for quotations. 



270. printed Cum privilegio. The allusion may derive special point from the 

 perennial dispute between the Cambridge printers and the Stationers' Company of 

 London. The controversy was particularly active during the first quarter of the 

 seventeenth century. See Cooper, Annais of Cambridge, III, 138, 142, 161, etc. 

 273. Alexander Ale. cf. Taylor, Drinke and Welcome (1637): "Some there 

 are that affirme that Ale was first invented by Alexander the Great." 



285. / Wine, comfort and preser-oe. Cf. Denudata (DuMeril, Poesies Inidites, 

 p. 307.) 



Per me senex juvenescit, 

 Per te ruit et senescit 



Juvenum lasdvia: 

 Per me mundus reparatur etc. 



and Le dibat dtt vin et de I'eau (ie dSbat de deux demoyselles, p. 133.) 



"Le cueur de I'homme tien ioyeulx, 

 Je conforte les hommes vieux; 

 Tu amfigris et ie tiens gras." 



Also Hans Sachs, Das streit-gesprech zwischen dem wasser und dem wein {Works. 

 ed. A. von KeUer, IV, 252.) 



"Mein gegenwart die leut erfrewt. 

 Ich mach schon roszlet das antlitz, 

 Vertreib sorg, angst, trubsal und schmertzen, 

 Sampt alien unmut ausz dem hertzen." 



291. nil spissius ilia. The epigram from which these lines are quoted is 

 attributed by Camden {Britannia, 1600, p. 495) and DuCange {Glossarium under 

 cerevisia) to Henricus Abrincensis (Henri d'Avranches), an obscure court poet 



