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p. 99 _Tramontana._ Foreign; Italian and Spanish _tramontano_ = from beyond the mountains.

p. 101 _upse._ Op zijn = in the fashion or manner of. _Upse Gipsy_ = like a gipsy, cf. _The Alchemist_, iv, vi:

I do not like the dulness of your eye: It hath a heavy cast, ’tis upsee Dutch.

p. 101 _Incle._ Linen thread or yarn which was woven into a tape once very much in use.

Epilogue

p. 106 _Nokes, or Tony Lee._ James Nokes and Antony Leigh, the two famous actors, were the leading low comedians of the day.

p. 107 _Play of the Novella._ _Novella_ is a good, though intricate, comedy by Brome. 8vo, 1653, but acted 1632.

p. 107 _The famous Virgil._ There is a tale, reported by Donatus, that Vergil once anonymously wrote up on the palace gates a distich in praise of Augustus, which, when nobody was found to own it, was claimed by a certain versifier Bathyllus, whom Cæsar duly rewarded, A few days later, however, Virgil again set in the same place a quatrain each line of which commenced ‘sic vos non vobis...’ but was unfinished, and preceeded these by the one hexameter

Hos ego versiculos feci; tulit alter honores.

All were unable to complete the lines satisfactorily save the great poet himself, and by this means the true author of the eulogy was revealed.

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THE ROVER; OR, THE BANISH’D CAVALIERS.