Chapter 57

p. 120 _Crab-Wine._ An inferior tipple brewed from sour apples.

446 p. 122 _Tantalus better than ever Ovid described him._

Quaerit aquas in aquis, et poma fugacia captat

Tantalus: hoc illi garrula lingua dedit.

_Amorum_, ii, 11, 43-4.

Tibi, Tantale, nullae Deprenduntur aquae; quaeque imminet effugit arbos.

_Met_, iv, 457-8.

p. 126 _I ... must be this very Mountebank expected._ One may remember Rochester’s unpenetrated masquerade as Alexander Bendo, high above ‘the bastard race of quacks and cheats,’ and Grammont’s account of all the courtiers and maids of honour flocking for lotions and potions of perpetual youth to the new empiric’s lodgings ‘in _Tower-Street_, next door to the sign of the _Black Swan_, at a Goldsmith’s house.’ In the _Works of the Earls of Rochester, Roscommon and Dorset_ (2. vols. 1756), there is a rough cut of Rochester as a charlatan delivering a speech to the assembled crowd. On the platform also stands his attendant, a figure dressed in the diamonded motley of Harlequin.

p. 126. _in querpo._ A Spanish phrase, _en cuerpo_ = without a cloak; in an undress or disguise.