Notes and Queries, Number 72, March 15, 1851

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notes

1

[Of which there can be no doubt. See further p. 205. of our present Number.—Ed.]

2

The reader will recognise the classical allusion.

3

Loam, earth; roam.

4

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.

5

Garden of Health, 4to. London, 1633. The portions within the brackets were omitted by Mr. Singer.

6

Via Recta ad Vitam Longam, by Thomas Venner, M.D. 4to. London, 1660.

7

Med. Dict.

8

A description of the rivers Yssel will be found in Dict. Géograph. de la Martinière, v. ix. fo. 1739.

9

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).

10

Merchant of Venice, Introduction.