ive Moneths travells in France, Savoy, Italy, Rhetia,
commonly called the Grisons country, Helvetia, alias Switzerland, some
parts of high Germany, and the Netherlands; Newly digested in the
hungary aire of Odcombe in the county of Somerset, and now dispersed to
the nourishment of the travelling members of this Kingdome, &c. London,
printed by W. S., Anno Domini 1611." Taylor had an especial grudge
against Coryat, for having had influence enough to procure his "Laugh
and be Fat"--directed against the traveller--to be burned; and that he
never failed to "feed fat the ancient grudge," may be seen in the many
pieces of ridicule levelled at the author of the "Crudities," even after
his death.]

[Footnote 17: TOPHET.--The Hebrew name for _Hell_.]

[Footnote 18: CIMMERIAN.--Pertaining to the Cimmerii, or their country;
extremely and perpetually dark. The Cimmerii were an ancient people of
the land now called the Crimea, and their country being subject to heavy
fogs, was fabled to be involved in deep and continual obscurity. Ancient
poets also mention a people of this name who dwelt in a valley near Lake
Avernus, in Italy, which the sun was said never to visit.]

[Footnote 19: PERTH.]

[Footnote 20: BRAEMAR.]

[Footnote 21: VIRGINAL JACK.--A keyed instrument resembling a spinet.]

[Footnote 22: RED-SHANKS.--A contemptuous appellation for Scottish Highland
clansmen and native Irish, with reference to their naked hirsute limbs, and
"As lively as a _Red-Shank_" is still a proverbial saying:--"And we came into
Ireland, where they would have landed in the north parts. But I would
not, because there the inhabitants were all _Red-shanks_."--_Sir Walter
Raleigh's_ Speech on the Scaffold.]

[Footnote 23: PUT ME INTO THAT SHAPE.--That is, invested him in Highland
attire.]

[Footnote 24: "Probably the district around the skirts of Ben
Muicdui."--_Chambers'_ Domestic Annals of Scotland.]

[Footnote 25: BALLOCH CASTLE.--Now called Castle-Grant.]

[Footnote 26: MORAY.]

[Footnote 27: MORAYLAND.]

[Footnote 28: SUGAR-CANDIAN.--_i.e._, Sugar-candy.]

[Footnote 29: A PIECE OF GOLD OF TWO-AND-TWENTY SHILLINGS.--"This was a
considerable present; but Jonson's hand and heart were ever open to his
acquaintance. All his pleasures were social; and while health and
fortune smiled upon him, he was no niggard either of his time or talents
to those who needed them. There is something striking in Taylor's
concluding sentence, when the resu