mander was a little ball made of perfumes, and worn in the pocket, or about the neck, to prevent infection in times of plague. In a tract, intitled, Certain necessary Directions, as well for curing the Plague, as for preventing Infection, printed 1636, there are directions for making two sorts of pomanders, one for the rich, and another for the poor. DR. GRAY. 63 —my pedlar's excrement.] Excrement is beard. 64-therefore they do not give us the lie.] Dele the negative: the sense requires it. The joke is this, they have a profit in lying to us, by advancing the price of their commodities; therefore they do lie. WARBURTON. The meaning is, they are paid for lying, therefore they do not give us the lie, they sell it us. JOHNSON. 65 -the hottest day prognostication proclaims,] That is, the hottest day foretold in the almanack. JOHNSON. 66 from the all that are, took something good,] This is a favourite thought; it was bestowed on Miranda and Rosalind before. JOHNSON. 66 Affront his eye.] To affront is to meet quasi, adfront, to oppose the front to. 68 -not so rich in worth-] Worth signifies any kind of worthiness, and among others that of high descent. The king means that he is sorry the prince's choice is not in other respects as worthy of him as in beauty. JOHNSON. 69-franklins-] Franklin is a freeholder, or yeoman, a man above a villain, but not a gentleman. JOHNSON. 70 You precious winners all:] You who by this discovery have gained what you desired may join in festivity, in which I, who have lost what never can be recovered, can have no part. JOHNSON. |