The Unfortunate Traveller and Other Works (72 page)

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. Labouring.

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. Meaning unknown.

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. Lived through many difficulties.

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Fetters.

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. Leg-irons.

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. Literally a bird's crop.

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. Between Newgate and Smithfield, famous for cooks' shops.

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. Colloquial for a coin of small value.

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. His name was Robert Harvey.

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. Food.

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Discite qui sapitis, non haec quae scimus inertes; Sed trepidas acies, et fera bella sequi
.
¹⁵

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Est aliquid fatale malum per verba levare
.
¹⁷

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Pol me occidistis, amici
.
¹⁹

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Scribimus indocti doctique poemata passim
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²⁴

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Heu rapiunt mala fata bonos
.
²⁵

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Non bene conducti vendunt periuria testes
.
⁵²

*
. No; I'll be sworn upon a book have I not.

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.
Id est
, for the freedom of gold.

*
. The devil hath children, as other men, but few of them know their own father.

*
. Sparagus: a flower that never groweth but through a man's dung.

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. As by carrying tales, or playing the doughty pander.

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. If you know him not by any of these marks, look on his fingers and you shall be sure to find half a dozen silver rings, worth threepence apiece.

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. And that sense oftentimes makes them senseless.

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. Withered flowers need much watering.

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. Italy the storehouse of all murderous inventions.

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. As Cardinal Wolsey, for example.

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. Little men for the most part are most angry.

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. Newgate, a common name for all prisons, as Homo is a common name for a man or a woman.

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.
Absit arrogantia
,
¹⁸⁵
that this speech should concern all divines, but such dunces as abridge men of their lawful liberty, and care not how unprepared they speak to their auditory.

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. Such sermons I mean as our sectaries preach in ditches, and other conventicles, when they leap from the cobbler's stall to their pulpits.

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. Plin., lib.
3
.

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. I would tell you in what book it is, but I am afraid it would make his book sell in his latter days, which hitherto hath lain dead, and been a great loss to the printer.

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. Look at the chandler's shop or at the flaxwife' stall, if you see no tow nor soap wrapped up in the tide page of such a pamphlet as
‘Incerti Authoris Io Paean'
[‘Of uncertain authorship…'].

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. Which at home, iwis, was worth a dozen of halters at least, for if I be not deceived, his father was a ropemaker.

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. His own words.

*
. Or rather Belly-alls, because all their mind is on their belly.

*
. Drinking
super nagulum
, a device of drinking new come out of France; which is, after a man hath turned up the bottom of the cup, to drop it on his nail, and make a pearl with that is left; which, if it shed, and he cannot make stand on by reason there's too much, he must drink again for his penance.

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.
Videlicet
, before he come out of his bed, then a set breakfast, then dinner, then afternoon's nunchings, a supper, and a rere-supper.

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. The fatal wooden horse at Troy fetched in with such pomp.

†
. Cleopatra's glorious sailing to meet Antony.

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. The solemn bringing of the champions at Olympus.

§
. Tugging forth by the strength of their arms.

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. Manny
quasi
Manly, and from him I take it the Mannies of Kent are descended.

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. John Thurkle.

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. The Sybarites
³⁰⁷
never would make any banquet under a twelve month's warning.

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. As much to say as Urrey, Urrey, Urrey, one of the principal places where the herring is caught.

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. Turbanto, the great lawn roll Turks wear about their heads.